MEXICO’S REPLY.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1919, Page 3

MEXICO’S REPLY.

TO AMERICA’S NOTE.

|! - 1 I (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) | fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] j (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) J MEXICO CITY, August 14. ! Government, replyng to United States Note, talkes exception to the tone of menace employed and points out that violence is common in large cities and there is an unsettled area in both countries. It suggests it is strange that United States should demand protection for foreigners, more especially in Mexico than elsewhere. Government suggests that Americans should leave the unsettled districts and come to the more populous places, where they could could lie more readily protected. MEXICAN ACTION. BRITISHER ORDERED OUT. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15. President Carranza as ordered William Cummings, the British Charge d’ , Archives to leave Mexico. j

RESULT OF ACTION. (Received this dav at 9.20 a.m..) WASHINGTON, Aug. 16

Carranza’s action followed a statement in the British Commons that Britain did not propose to recognise the Carranza Goernment, until guarantees wore given for the protection of the lives and properties of Britons in Mexico. The British Embassy at

Washington conferred with Mr Lansing,, hut it is understood remedial action is impossible. The Charge d’ Archives is an unofficial position, so Cummings has no official status.