Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1916 — U. S. TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN [ARTICLE]

U. S. TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN

Government Will Withdraw Troops From Mexico In Forty Days If Conditions Permit. A protocol providing for the conditional withdrawal of the American troops now in Chihuahua, Mexico, and for the military control of the border, but with stipulation that United States troops shall be sent into Mexico in pursuit of Mexican bandits at any time the American government deems it necessary, was signed in Atlantic City by the members of the Mexican-American joint committee.” If the protocol is ratified by . the two governments, the commission will convene about December 8, to resume the discussion of other questions affecting- the two countries, especially those relating to the protection of life and property of Americans and other foreigners in Mexico. If ratification by either government is withheld, the work of the conference will be declared at an end. , The agreement as signed is not what the Mexicans wanted. It contains the article providing for unrestricted pursuit into Mexico by American troops of bandits who may cross the boundary. The agreement as reached between the two countries provided for the following: 1. The American troops now in Chihuahua, commanded by Gen. John J; Pershing, shall be withdrawn within forty days from the appioval of the protocol by the respective governments, provided that within that tirpe the conditions in that part of Mexico have not become such as to endanger the American border. In such event the time shalf be extended. 2. The Mexican army shall patrol the Mexican side of the border and the American army the American side, but this shall not preclude cooperation between the two forces to preserve peace upon the border. 3. It shall be left to the command--ing officers of the armies on the border of both nations to enter into such arrangements for co-operation in operation against bandits whenever it is possible. 4. The American government reserves the right to pursue into Mexico maurauders coming from Mexico into the United States so long as conditions in northern Mexico are in their present abnormal state.