MEXICO.
DECLARES WAR ON UNITED 1 STATES. GERMAN INFLUENCE SUSPECTED Received June 20, 2.5 D p.m. (Cable —Press Association.) (Extraordinary.) Washington, June 19. Mexico has declared war on the United States. It is hinted that German influence is at the .bottom of this «
A SKIRMISH. |
[50,000 AMERICAN TROOPS ON THE
BORDER.
Received June 20, .i.5 p.m. / Washington, June 111. TJ.e Mexican Government in Yucatan has declared war on the United States, and ordered all Americans to leave Mexico.
Some fighting occurred between tho crew of an American gunboat and the Carranzistas at Mazatlan. The United States Government naa called out the States militia, .numberin? 100,000, and fifty thousand regulars. AH the troops the United States is tfolc to spare are now on the Mexican border. • ,
There is "rent excitement throughout Mexico against the American?. United States expeditions who are chasing bandits have been recalled. It is hinted that German influence is at the bottom of the uprising. (Mazatlan, population 20,000, is the chief seaport of Mexico, on the Pacific Coast.)
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1916, Page 5
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