Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — CARRANZA ISSUES DEMANDS TO U. S. [ARTICLE]

CARRANZA ISSUES DEMANDS TO U. S.

Asks That the United States Set Free 30 Mex Now Under Arrest and Lift Embargo—Reply On Way.. — 4. ^ —- ——:.— Carranza has met President Wilson’s ultimatum with a counter demand, and the question of war or peace between the United States and Mexico may be determined within the next twenty-four hours. The president's demand for the surrender of the prisoners taken in the Carrizal battle has been matched by Carranza with a demand for the release of the thirty Mexicans arrested in the. United States along the border within the past two weeks. Dispatches indicate that all but three of these already have been set free. Carranza also demands that the embargo on the exportation of American merchandise be lifted. These demands were presented to Secretary of State Lansing Tuesday by fcenor Arredondo, Mexican ambassador designated to the United States. They constitute the forerunner of Carranza’s ans Aver to President Wilson’s ultimatum to surrender the American prisoners now held in Chihuahua and to define the attitude of the de facto government toward the U. S.