Turbulent Mexico

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 24 February 1914, Page 5

Turbulent Mexico

JIK.VTOX'.S ]-;.\KL'l'TluN. <:FA'KRAL VILLA'S STol! >'. fly Cable—Press Assut*::i{ion—Cop;, right Washington, February it. Mr. ISryun has been informed, through the American Consul nl. ,[;uirez, of General Villa's version of tiie lientou execution. It is to the ell Vet thiil. Denton threatened Villa's life am! wus court-martiallcd and shot on a charge of attempted assassination in n full street. Denton's friends ridicule (lie idea that any trial was accorded him. They stiite he openly boasted that lie never carried arms in Mexico. THK LIMIT niCACIIKI). TIME FOR AMKRICA TO MOVE. Received i!i, Hl.j sp.m. London, February ■>■!. Benton, who was executed ill Mexico, was a native of Keig. His father was ii. farmer and a cousin of Sir .lolin i!rir ten. The Daily News says admittedly Mexico is within the sphere of American interest, lint there is a limit to everything and that limit is nearly reached when liritish subjects are done to death. The Times says that unless it is proved that liertton deserved his fate opinion in America, and Ilritain will re(|iiire exemplary punishment. The Morning Post thinks it is incumbent on President Wilson to soon announce his plan for obtaining sreurity for the lives and property of foreigners in Mexico, or declare Monrotism and the United. States' policy are not opposed to other countries taking notion to secure their own subjects' welfare in Mexico.

TAKING. PRECAUTION'S. Received 23, 10.40 p.m. Vera Cruz, February 22. The commander of the German cruiser Dresden shipped to the German Legation in Mexico City two machine guns and forty thousand rounds of ammunition, and a squad of bluejackets. KENTON'S MURDER.' Received 23, 11.35 p.m. London, February 23. The Financial News says if Benton's murder is not traceable to President Wilson's door it may be veearded as the consequences of his recognition of the rebels and the removal of the embargo upon the importation of arms and ammunition into Mexico. The present disturbed situation may continue indefinitely unless some stronfr action h taken. , , i