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The Dardanelles Campaign.
A* ? . ' :' ;.* y di.-cussion of tho
.- campaign it is neeeesary to
iba the comparatively simp!?*- geo?
graphical circumstances of the battle?eld.I
Gallipoli Peninsula ii perhaps fifty
? ng westward from the
mainland, with the Dardanelles !
the Golf of
nt the north. Were Manhattan Island a
peninsula its relation to the Fast Hiver
: he wholly similar to that of the
: ala to ths l lardanellea. \
Bui only ? rn tip of this penin?
sula has yet been involved in the struggle.
the topography of this Sir Ian
* report of operations
ipplied an admirable figure. He com-1
? it to a badly worn boot. Accept this
lion of the important
details to the main campaign can easily
rth.
Thus the toe of the boot is the western
nanla, the extreme point of
which is Cape lb-Has and the notable feat?
ure is the town of Sedul Bahr, the Bite of
the Turkish forts commanding the en
th? scene of the
' ?ng.
i from Sedul Bahr along the
sole of the boot to the hi i
than ten miles, an 1 exactly at the heel it
*? point in ;he Dardanelles, com
? of Turkish f
i and faced by others
on th? h?re.
Now, ?ng the other shore
of th< . ? the point which corre?
. is a curving baj
.- the hill of Gal id end-1
a stretch of tl
four miles, of Sari
'i feet over the Gulf ofi
Saros. Fi Hellas to Suvla Hay is
perha] s Tepe, the
ankle, tl*.?- Gallipoli Peninsula is about five
less than two.
Now, the objective of the Allied forces
is the cluster of forts just under the heel.
Kilid Bahr. T
?pen. Troops could be
land? ' ??? oi the ankle nom
Bay. 'I in y could also
from Cap?* Hellas to
. ? inder the 1
* landing place of all,
but . from Turkish batteries on
the .'?. ?re near the site <?:
Far as Gaba
of the coast was such
peral difficult and
ended in relative failure.
The of the Allied com
re, an<l
general al
that ?s, to ?' ? - at every available
landing pla . iroid th?
destruction of each separate landing party
by thi . concentrate
' any threatened
point. It is worth recording that the land
. that is, a num?
ber equal to the whole of the first Ameri?
can expedition to Ss ! 898.
? landing was made mainly at the toe
1 ape Hellas to Sedul Bahr, Mean
landed on the Asiatic side
and for t: ' ngaged the Asiatic
that M orto Baj was occupied.
At th? er pari
re at the ankle, above Gaba Tepe and
below it tep ea rt of Cape
Hellas and Gaba Tepe. Bul these two
land ? instantly check.-d and
until the last few days could make no
progress what**
s the main force was ashore it moved
up the toe of the Loot, stretching a line
Straight, across the peninsula. But after
having progressed for some three miles it
ong defer.
that of Achi Baba. Here s line of hills
' I ? peninsula, ns
abruptly from the Gulf of Saros to an
' and from the Straits
Midwa he peninsula
and i f the village of Krithia is
the dominating hill of Achi Baba, 709 feet
high.
( oming ? the toe this position
.i escarpment It was
; urks. It was im?
of the fleel to be of
much sen use tl.?' contour of the
count to lie far out to get
the necessary elevation. Against thi
tion the Allied forces moved on the first
day after they landed, but they were
halted then the first check they
? any substantial
I Krithia.
Meantime a second force landed above
i . Tepe a s . ? d to move
? ' iving in the rear
of the Achi Baba position and compelling
tlit* Turks to retire from it. But this force
mptly checke?! along the
Bahr hill and has been un?
able to do anytl I ang on sine . it
.? within th? past few days that a
for?*e landed further up at Suvla Bay has
?orne south along the ankle and begun to
climb the San Bahr ridge.
But if th- Sari Bahr ridge is taken an.?
the r?>ar of the Achi Haba position throat
onod the Turks will still U* able to fall
bu. k t.? the tunin defensive podtkM wetl
of i'iisIih Dagh, wbicli is formad by ? con
fused mats df bills north of tlu> lirol and
the forte of Kill?I Bahr. Pasha Dash, the
dominating summit here, la 7?>?'> feet high.
(>n all sides tins positn>n rises from deep
ravines ami it is fair t<? assume that it lins
boon ?thoroughly fortified.
Briefly, then, the situation in (he ("allip
oil Peninsula is this: The flrat ?landing
party hai moved east alone- the hoot for
three miles an?! there has been cheeked. The
check came in the lirst ?lays of May, and
sim-c that time there has been only slight
progress incident to siege work. The check
took place before the lirst defensive line,
which still holds. A second landing party,
?jetting ashore at the ankle, has heen held
almost on the beach and is only ju
ginning to progress toward the rear of the
ins* defensive position of the Turks.
If the Turks lose their first position at
Achi Haba they still have the stronger
Pasha l>airh position. Hut if they lose
this then the forts on both the European
an?l the Asiatic side are doomed, because
they are commanded by the landward hills
on the Gallipoll Peninsula. The fall of
?hese forts will open the Straits, and Con?
stantinople cannot l?? defended against a
hostile fleet.
Hut it is essen'ial to remember that In
four months the Allies have not progressed
four miles, that most of the progress uns
made in the first rush, that the country is
admirably adapted to defence, the hills are
separated by steep ravines, the fled is able
to render only a limited amount of help,
and the whole Allied force is within range
of the Turkish heavy artillery. Above all,
it il necessary to remember that the Allies
have not yet reached the mam defensive
position of the Turks at Pasha Dagh,
which is far stronger than the line at
which they have been halted.
As to the possibility of cutting the Turk
ish line of communications; By land the
only line is the road coming from the es I
entering the Gallipoll Peninsula at the
Bulair neck, which is only about three
miles wide. But this neck is strongly for
Westward the road follows lhe
Dardanelles shore and cannot be cut until
the Allies have got clear across the penin?
sula. Even then there remains the water
only partially interrupted
by Allu-d submarine operations.
The ?cniestion of the numbers and the
ammunition supply of ?the Turks remains in
It the ammunition is failing then
Allied success is inevitable. It is ha
believe that Turkish numbers are yet fail?
ing, and until they fail or the ammunition
rength of the Turkish posi?
tion is such as to make the prosp?
Allied ? light unless a Bulgarian
attack through Thrace draws off Turkish
forces and ultimately reaches the Sea of
Marmora at Rodosto, u> did that of 1912,
thus cutting the landward route from (?al
lipoli to ? lonstantinople.
This situaiimi explains the Allied effort
to persuade Bulgaria to enlist. Turkish
m the Caucasus, about Gallipoll and
in Ej?ypt make it unlikely that the Turks
would succeed now, as they failed at Lille
ta m 1912 in checking Bulgar ad
to the Chatalja. Hut shoi
an advance, or the landing of a flre^ek or
Italian expeditioi ai l -, on the Gulf of
Saros, which should perform the same
task, it is hard to sec how the Allies can
win while Turkish ammunition holds out.
A Skyscraper Postoffice.
If Mr. Newton, the acting Secretary ot
rj, i.- not croi sed in his purpoae
Chicago will have a skyscraper poston.ee.
ill cost less money than one which
.-pleads horizontally and there is no ques?
tion that h ral proportions it will
harmonize with the surrounding archi?
tecture of Chicago's business district
But what arc we coming to if even our
public buildings are to stand on their tip
straphangers, as it were, in the cos?
mic conveyance? There was a coterie of
citizens here who wanted New York's now
courthouse ? skyscraper to save the price
of an ample site. Oakland, Cal., has a
City Hall that must forever remain
ing. And next we shall hear, no do
?public libraries that compete for the up
air with loft and office Btru? '
looking down upon church steeples with
all the condescension of the ultra in?',lern
(??r the archaic,
of course New Yorker , possi
flee which, however prone upon the
ground, shrieks to high heaven with its
ugliness, are in a somewhat delicate posi?
tion to he airinf- their preferences in these
matters. Fortunately the shape of their
rourthouse has heen determined and
they already have their library. Both
spread laterally; It was with the.r
'library that Henry .lames, on his last visit
to ins recently renounced native land, ex
id in.- heartfelt contentment il
it would continue to sil and -it and
Chicago no less than New York nee?ds
here and there an oasis of architectural
? to emphasize by contrast the n? r
vous energy radiating from lier storm of
skysc el Mr Newton hold his
hand and Congress provide for the new
[flee the price oi ? - en though
it be a Pullman price.
Doubtful Hopes.
The accounts in the daily papers ?re
not very clear as to the "unique op?ra?
tion" which is sai?! to have cured "a * ?c
Um of infantile paralysis." Some infor?
mation is given about the child and more
about her family; we are told that the
Operation was "the only one of its kind
iccessfully performed," and we are
duly provided with the name and add res
of the performer. But the poil t of chief
p.teiest is left out or but vag
;<t in a ' that the opera?
tion involved resection of the astragalus
It i perhapi - njecture th it I
had nothing to do with ? euro, and
the suggestion conveyed in such problem?
atical headlines ns "Infantile Paralysis
Hope" is .slightly misUading. In the first!
piare it is Inconceivable thnt nny operation
en tin? foot could possibly have the l?-asl
bearing on the disease that cnuseil the
crippling. Probably the cliihl had polio?
myelitis some time ago, nnd like ninny
ethers was l?-ft with certain disabilities
?hie to partial or total paralysis of ?orno!
muscle or muscles, she wns apparently j
Unable to walk or could walk only with
?difficulty, and it was doubtless in order to
relievo this condition that the operation
was done.
Surgical work is often useful in such
cases to present deformities or to make
walking easier, and orthopedists some?
times secure very satisfactory results. But
to speak of this in a general way a-, a
new and hopeful treatment for infantile'
paralysis is absurd. The operation in this
particular case may have been unique, as
it is described, but if so the whole interest
of the story lies in the operation, api of
this there is no definite account, perhaps;
because the surgeon happens at. the mo-1
ment to he "out of town on a vacation."
It is likely, however, that if he were in
town he would be the first to object to the
conclusion drawn from what, he did.
Silencing an Idle Protest.
In setting forth his plan for the con
? i of the American people to the
German doctrine of neutrality the inge?
nious author of that "contidcntial report"
which lias lately been mnde public advised
his masters, as a preliminary step "of the
?utmost importance," to see that "the Ger
?man people cease continually to discuss
publicly the delivery of American arms
ami ammunition." Bei haps he had an ink?
ling of what was coining, hut, in any case
'tl.' possibility "f further discussion is
finally disposed of by the reply of our
Secretary of State to the protest of the
Hungarian govern?.
Tl:?- appendix to the note is alone suffi?
cient to demonstrate thai further argu?
ment is superfluous. Here in plain ligures
we aie shown to what extent Germany
and Austria contributed toward the con
duct of the Soutii African campaign. Here
is a detailed list of the explosives, pro?
jectile?- and arms exported to t.roat Britain
from 1899 to 1902, when it was manifestly
as difficult for the Boers to compete
the munitions market as it is for the (ier
and Austrian- to-day. At that time
no protest was raised by the German peo?
ple on the mors and no attempt
was made by the German or Austrian
government to put a stop to the traile in
arms and ammunition. Had they refused
to sell to (?rent Britain on that occasion
their present contention might, as Mr.I
Lansing observes, he maintained "with
greater consistency and greater force."
What. Germany and Austria invite this
country to do in effect ?; to neutralize
("roat Britain's power ?m tl.?' sea in order
that they may have less difficulty in con-j
ng with their enemies. A more pre-!
posterous and ridiculous demand was never'
put forward seriously than that a neutral
power should, as Mr. Lansing puts it,
"sit in judgment on the progres>
war" ami "restrict its commercial inter
course with a belligerent whose naval BUC?
prevented the neutral from trade
with the enemy."
Bui further argument on a point suffi?
ciently obvious from the beginning is idle
in the light of the example furnished by
Germany and Austria themselves. By their
Command of the sea Great Britain and her
?allies have an undeniable advantage.
i< but one way to neutralize that
advantage. In the meantime whining
complaints at the conditions that prevail
arc neither impressive nor profitable, and
;the American note admirably and com
of them.
Th? ? souls who have hen losing
i le? p won ?? Germans in
rj might do may now catch up
with a few naps. Tho Naturalisation 1'
'. while tli?-r.' sre 2,600,000 (.?r
mans, here unhyphenated there are about
1,500,000 w >'" owe allegiance to the Allies.
i lombard Belgrad? m? sdllne.
But this wasn't news a yenr aco.
Sea Power's Importance.
To the Editor of Th.- Tribune.
Sir: If Admiral Mahan were only alive
? i!<! l>c able !?. point out for m as no
now living can the perilous situation
Germany now ?ndi herself in from having
of any si 1 e high pc-as
and from not being ab ? nny serious
? ? * formidable foe. The
(.??Milan government s? England is
? ?? enemy it really dreads, an?! jret her
'armies arc compelled to hide behind trenches
land grow weary with watchful waiting while
Kitchener take? his own time to arm, eijuip
'and train millions and millions of fresh!
?troops in all parts of the world. Without'
any outlet to the sea no land victories over
Russians Ol or Serbians are of any
?avail, and to make lure that she could not
i oven lind a ?loor mto the Mediterranean Ger?
: Italy to take arms against
. iren hei months t" properly for
; close every A .
poll with iteel bars. Suppose the German
armies should inaich several hundred miles
i to Russia, overrun Serbie and march serosa
the Balkan Statt intinopls, has she
y Iliade th? ion on
or French armies or navies?
The v'.or: ; id figured it all out
?ho war that England was defene?'
less sgainst either the Zeppelin airships or
the submarines. What a disappointment the
letual results accomplished by either of
th.se methods have been!
SUCCee ling and wounding several
I
form of insurance at Lloj
submarini
iiiik *^ ' several navy vessels,
?
the Channel or ]
.- regularly
.v teas to France.
efforts hav?? been ma?le to in
the Atlantic,
" Dur f?c?
il m mu
.',?: in.'ii are con
r ?Bto Can
a irrcat ailvcnturc in
. i land "f Prance. The powei
ill eventually ruK? the
?? truth will
never be so evident as at the elose of this
war. NOTA BENE.
Floral Bluff, Fla., Aug. 11, 1015. ,
NO FEAR OF MILITARISM
R?^al Menace Comes from the Co\
ards and Mollycoddles.
To the K.I'tor of The Tribune.
Sir: It is nerve-racking to find so oft
a letter In your column? from ?ome cown
?ho faara te pay th.? price of maintain!
Ins own and the nation'? honor. 1 heart
agree with Mr. Roosevelt that the?e are t
mollycoddle?. I havo heard that there
an organization which endeavors to ?
young men to pledge themselves never
?tike up arms for the United State?, no mi
ter how righteous the cause may be. The
people and their victims are actually e
(/aged in a treasonable act, the final insult
tha hyphenated and the weak-minded. V
Kive these agitators too much liberty, whi
may redound later to our own destructic
11 ? p p i I y, as General Wood intimate?, the
arc ?till some males left to offset this d
praved ?et.
The one great objection to the formnti?
?,f a citizen soldiery is the fear of milita
ism. Hut that is impossible in a republ
and is possible only where the people do n
control the government thst controla tl
army. In fact, the burden of proof lies wi
those who make the assertion that militan?
would result. The argument concerning the ?
pense of maintaining adequate militai
force? i? offset by the fact that a forci?
army would have a mighty easy time I
torting $1,000,000,000 from New York Cil
before Wa could begin to defend the tow
I, for one, shall cast my lot with that of tl
advocates of preparedness for that very rei
ion, because it is merely a form of in-uru
the nation against loss of money, of terr
tory and, worst of all, of honor. Of cours
the mollycoddles don't see any sense Ifl tl
idea that our honor is worth maintaining.
Julius ?'?es?r, who was nol aa great in w?
us he was in peace, wrote that the Belgiai
?like those of to-day) were the bra
the peoples because they did not meddl
with "tho-i" things which tend M make th
manly i spirit effeminate." Prom the hj
I h.'iiated and the sissitied, good Lord del i VI
and give us hark the grander CO)
of American patriotism,
I.AWKKNCK K. ANDERSON.
Brooklyn, Aug. 1J, 1915.
Volunteer Soldier the Best.
T? the Editor of The Tribu?
Sir: I was astonished this morning whil
reading General Leonard Wood', addr?
iivcrcd to lhe men now in camp of it,struct,?.
al Plattaburg, N. V. Tha general la po
I y wrong in the manner in which ha
cf a volunteer army. Washington whlppe?
the trained army of Knglan.l with volunteer?
Grant whipped I???' With volunteers. I con
?me volunteer equal to three hireling
who are forced into tha < rvice.
lhiring the Civil War the men who volun
leered had a lot of trouble with the mei
who w<re drafted into the service. Kl '
had we to watch and light the enemy in froi
of OB, but we bad to watch the drafted nur
i-.nd make them do their duty. When lieau
regard and I.ongstrcet charged our line a
Druye'a Hluff several drafted men ?tarte?
to run to the rear, and some of them wen
ho? by our own men as coward
What wc want to ibi ?I to tea?
in all our schooli and eolleges. We live it
?he greatest and moat liberal country undei
the sun, and the safety and perpetuity of oui
institutions depend on the American volun?
teer schlier. With a population .?f ov.-i
?iMi.imo.ooo we should have no trouble plac?
ing an army of 11,000,000 men in the field in
three or four months. It does not take Ion?
io teach patriots how to fight. We don't want
to maintain a large standing army in this
country, that would be a great tux on the
people. Let ui treat all nations fair!?., and
try to gel them to do what is right, if we
succeed In this, wa w'ill have been a blessing
t?. the world
Please publish this letter and oblige a
constant reader of The Tribune.
PETEB TWAMLEY.
Late Corporal,Company I, 4-th Regiment,
N. Y. S. V..
New Yoik, Aug. 12, 191S.
Misunderstood Biblical Doctrines.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I ?/aa surprised to find the '
Saxon name of .John Mesdford signed to B
letter appealing for moral and physical cow?
ardice in the peace panacea
I am mailing to the realdenee given a pam?
phlet containing the address delivered on the
1-ihth anniversary of the Battle of Fort
Washington by the Rev. William Montague
Geer, 8. T. D? at St Paal'a Chapel, .New York
City, before the Fort Washington I hapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolu?
ti a.
If there are any American eitixeni who
have any conscientious leruplei on till
of miaunderstood Biblical doctrines as to our
duty ' ?red to defend our families
and our eountry from aaaaaainationa and
w,,i-e atrOCitil l, I shall lie happy t,, -,,r
ward them a copy of this patriotic address.
T. HUGH BO'i KM AN.
New York, Aug. 11, l'.n."..
GALLIPOLI BATTLEFIELD.
Gulf of
Saros
A--A - Ac/r/ Baba Pos/t/o/v
B?B - Pasha Dach
Q A - FO/Z T/F/C/R T/O/VS
-LET FERDINAND DO IT!"
A MENACE TO SOCIAL WELFARE
The- Barnes Amendment Should Be* Beaten and a Broad Welfare Clause
Put Into the New Constitution.
To the I ril une.
smendraen
would prohibit the Legislature from "grant
?
immui - torded to every other :
<r persona." However fair, in the abstract
itterly im
practicable ol realisation. Its adoption might
ep away the many immuni?
ties and privileges now conferred by or em
iw, and which to-day ;
mplete realisation of the prim
equality for all, but it certainly would pre
??' nt any of 11. measures bj
which ' - day recognises and att
t., relieve the ills ?lue to inequalities of social
? on, snd it would as certainly amount
?o a direction ?>r mandate to the Legislature
? i repeal all existing law., conferring privl
nd or .h anj d?
It would affeet all exemptions from taxa
t;on of churches anl eharitable institution;!,
all graduated taxation, exemptions from jury
duty, privileges conferred by the civil service
: i public pen Ions, publ ie pool
public chai ' ibsidies of all kinds, in
eluding a multitude of other privileges, bene
..? ?1 immunities, the nullifica
? of ?Inch would far outweigh in
disadvantai dvantage gained from
securing literal conformity to the princ
' ? all.
But its principal, indeed it? svowed, object
to previ ? of the policy of
locial industrial relief, illustrated by the
workmen's compensation legislation. It is
conceivable, if it is adopted, that the
on of the existing constitution specifi?
cally providing for workmen's c?mpen
adopted by the people by s great preponder?
ance " 191 should stand. )n the
other hand, it is equally inconceivable, in view
of the general sal ?*" both employers
and employes with this l/ica' measure of in
dustrlal welfare, that it should be discarded
and tl lid return to the evils of the
ipp ,'i.l Bul workmen's com
- men ly one of s number of meas
I upon rhe now generally reeog?
nixed economic principle that each particular
induatry and lOeiety generally should bear il
part the burden of cost and loss of the
from the condition! under which it i
. -? d.
The programme of industrial relief and in
: aranca which ha? been 10 much more ganar
cualj and generally adopted In other enlight
<??!.-,I countries must and b/111 certainly b(
developed here. If the principle is corree
that industry or elf must in somi
manner share with the workers the cost U
il,?m or their families from accidental deatl
? ury, due to the hasarda Of industry, It
ii haul ?o sec why industry ami
,| not equally i ly bear oi
?he cost of I
tributable to particular kin?!- of work; tha
i ?-.?it the?" should be cup'
?Vir occupational diaeasei as well as for occn
al accidenta, lecured through the me
of inauranee; and by analogy it will noi
l?r difficult to demonstrate the advantage ol
providing in some similar manner for reliel
from sickness generally anil from the evil;
and misery of unemployment and old age
The hs-st sociological thought of our ag?
makes no question that such measures shoul?
be gradually adopted.
A large part of the programme was in sue
cessful operation in Germany and England
before thia war, and it ia certain to bi
adopt id in all ol ?untries, in<
eluding our own, where th i condi?
tion? of modern industry obtain. It i- un?
thinkable, In view of the progress already
made ?a this country along similar lines, that
?re should turn back the hands of the elocl
in the manner proposed, or, indeed, that Wf
should mer.-ly stand on the present provision
limiting the power of the Legislatura '
with relief for accidental injury to workers,
v.i'h no provision permitting a response to n
real demand to provida i!ief tor occupa?
tional disease, sickness, unemployment or old
?'g''
Wo cannot afTor?! either to retreat .,?
merely to mark time while Other countries
??re so practica Ij p oviding f?ir the content
tp.ent and l l?e moi al, ph) - <?.?! and i
wellbeing of that prepond.i . rltj ? ??
e. itj . manual and n ?
(??il induatry. It will indeed be i
f< rtune if thil convention .
islative itraitjaeket which prevente tha
tion of reforms which the enlightened tl
of modern civilisation approves and ,;,
-e are certainly in the con-.
enough men of clear vision and broad und? :
ng to prevent the adoption of any lUch
narrow view of the higher function of civil
i/.cd modern government. But it will not do
to stop there; they should see that such a
provision la framed ai 'I adopted as will per?
mit the gra?lual adoption of more of those
?cut measures which in other countries
have so contributed t., the general welfare.
It will not be enough to merely defeat the
Barnes amendment an?! leave the COnat
ll social wel?
fare elauM provided.
?I. IIAYHEW WAINWRIGHT.
Rye, N. T., Aug. 14, 191ft.
Brothers in Aeronautics.
To the F.ditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Noting the article in yesterday's Trib?
une with relation to the appointment to the
Naval Advisory Board, I wish to say on lie?
s',f the Aeronautical Society of America
that, while in the main the statements in
your article are true, this society has no de
? , enter into any controversy with the
American Society of Aeronautic Kngineers,
' w -h in any way to disparage
a? organization.
The Aeronautical Society is, and has for the
ren or eigl en, fully accupied
in carrying out its functions as a technical
body, involving research in aero-dynamic?
and kindred sciences for the development
of the art of aviation, and it will, of course,
w? leoma in this field another organization
Capable of assisting in the same cause
The Aeronautical Socie'y wishes the new
society all possible good lurk, and will ex?
pect with interest to see a list of the mem
h.-rs of the American Society of Aeronautic
Kngineers who will combine for the purpose
of doing good work. F. W. WARKER,
Acting President Aeronautical Society
of America.
New ?ork, Aug. 12, 1315.
ALL QUIET IN VERA CRUZ
No Anti-Foreign Demonstrate
Anywhere in Mexico.
To the Editor of The i i
Sir: The ?m ricen prei I I *
lanti-Americi .
Cruz, and upon tl
aggerated comm? publis!
stating that the lives of for?
S re in danger; that th
ment wiii spread throughout Mexico, andt!
(therefore the Amer can government it p
pan d to oi der an ft". ?? Mexico.
I which purpose a squad)
be seal to \... , ? : able for
of the I'nited States armv to the border.
Nothing has don?
relations that mu-- ?
two neighboring republ by mutt
commercial, nan int
ei ts than tr. ? < of int
vertion, made by a sect
; United Stati -. false a
malicious infon sa in i mi.
to the Constitutional government
Carranza in Mexico.
These threats, which have
lilt* five years, fi '?!??
can revolution Btai
regime, coupled ??
some d i magasines, wr
ten by Americans of il
citing the United ... a war
renquest to
until the countries lying from the border i
the United States as far as the I'-marr
(anal are subilu? ead a feeling i
! ?'..?trust all over '.
I to the intentions of th?
these countries.
We Mexieani Ici
and the people of the I'm'
whole do no* partici] ? "i*** ?
i iterfering In the ' ?? friend
try, this being I i aa? w
take such ? ? Bat, ?
ie time we know there are powerfs
?
Cai those o
? .
iii M< ?
?
I
! ' '?'
wen
? n th?
}ta. V.-xico. In or 1er to earrj
reprovable purp
I as to organise armed bar.':
on the bord? * hap?
pening. This is the reason whj **' ar? al?
?n the alert, in to far as the relationi
.-en Mexico and the United States tr?
? tied.
To-day the confidential agency ?t the Cos*
ttitutionallsl v.- Wain*
initton receive?! teb | t OST"
ranza an?! his Secretary : Affair*
flatly denying that there had be? u '? *nt"
foreign demonstrar ions in ? i ?* 'n
any other part of Mexico. Nearly all 'l>*
geaerals of the Constitutionalist stray ba**
addressed the 1 * r '*'?''
alty to him in the :" ?rt';r'
reatlon, which, if articles and reports pu?""
.'. in mnnv Amer'-in dailies are to M
credited, is certain to no. These i*er.*rtU
have given Seftor I '""* a
that in the event of intervention tl
do their duty as Mexicans. A poj
ing took place in '?. I r?'-*'''
against any foreign interference in the "?"
ternal affairs of Mexico.
This is the oi ly th ? i that happened '??
Vit? Cms, sad I d? ?' *"r"*
American papers which are ever;
[suiting the Mexican sir leader??
; their ideals, by branding a m???'
' ?ins or..! savages the men for whom they ha?o
profound esteem an! :?????'?", JBSt ** ??*?
?Americans have for Washington snd Lmcel??
I will go so far as I
right to protest ? '*- oU
; side interference ?q their interns -r' "*
lor Carrease states in hit met sge tn*'*
1 in >pite of what is happening in the ' nit"*
S'a?.-!, which, if public reports ?re *?" ??*
wd, _m?.unts to a CO . o?''"
throw hu government he will continue at
Rive all kinds of goal ' '* **"
tiding in Mexico, punishing severely any '?'
tempt against their hin or property?
HERIBEBTO BARRON.
Washington, Aug. 1-, 1_ 15.