Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — MEXICANS FLEE U. S., FEARING CONSCRIPTION [ARTICLE]

MEXICANS FLEE U. S., FEARING CONSCRIPTION

H Brownsville, Tex. Conscription has terror for the Mexicans. When word came to the border that the great American congress had adopted conscription, the Mexicans who had fled to this side of the border during the troubled days of Madero, Huerta, Villa and Carranza believed the American brand of conscription would be similar to the Mexican brand. So hundreds of them fled back to Mexico. At El Carmen one Mexican mother gathered up her* two sons and-set out to cross the_ river to Mexico on a raft. The raft broke and the three floundered in the water a considerable time until dragged to safety by spectators. She explained she had tried to reach Mexico to save her sons from the horror of the American war.