Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1916 — CARRANZA SETS U. S. PRISONERS FREE [ARTICLE]

CARRANZA SETS U. S. PRISONERS FREE

Compliance With the United States Demands Averts Open Rupture At This Time. An immediate break between the United States and the de facto government of Mexico has been averted by the compliance of the demands for the release of twenty-three captured in the fight at Carrizal. Whether a state of war has been prevented or merely postponed, no one at Washington would attempt to say Wednesday night. Official attitude of General Oarransa was lacking. Until his response to Secretary Lansing’s note dispatched Sunday, making two peremptory and distinct demands, is received, there will be no decision on whether President Wilson shall lay the crisis before congress.

News of the release of the prisoners in the press dispatches brought undisguised relief to high officials. Moreover it was assumed that Carranza, impressed with the urgency of the situation, has ordered the captured cavalrymen started to the border without waiting for his action to reach Washington. While it is generally conceded that this move lessens the tension and makes the crisis less imminent, no one conversant with the grave, problem is losing sight of the fact that the all-important question of Carranza's attitude toward the expedition across the border to protect the territory and citizens of the United States from bandit outrages remain unchanged.