Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1916 — Villa Says That All Americans Must Go Or Suffer. [ARTICLE]

Villa Says That All Americans Must Go Or Suffer.

Details of the personal appeals to Francisco Villa for consideration at his while he was iacontrol of Chihuahua City, are recited in a letter received from Mrs. Barnett Danis, whose husband is owner of a general merchandise store. The! letter to her son, a Los Angeles attorney, asserts that Villa was given one million pesos after he had threatened to burn Chihuahua City if the silver was not forthcoming. Villa also ifcade threats, the letter says, to relieve Americans in Mexico of all their property and valuables. ‘Three times I went to Villa’s headquarters and asked him personally that he not disturb at least our household effects,” Mr. Dannis said. “Villa threatened me with utter contempt. He said everything Americans possess now livihg in Mexico would be taken by the Mexicans, and that orders had been given his men that what could not be taken should be destroyed. We stayed in hiding for six days. After looting the city and making away with about $400,000 worth of hierchandise, destroying and burning property that belonged to foreigners, Villa demanded one mil- ! ion pesos in silver of the»residents under threat of burning the city. He received the money. “Chinese and Mexicans were killed »y the scores. Dead are strewn all over the eity.”