Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. I ARLEY WILL END TODAY AT JUAREZ Mexicans Downcast at the Refusal of U. S. to Recall the Invaders, El Paso, Texas, May I.—lnformation from Washington that. Secretary Baker had instructed General Scott and General Funston to make it plain to General Obregon that any agreement reached at their conference here must not. be based on any plan for Immediate withdrawal of American troops from Mexico, was received with gravity in Jaurez tonight.

General Obregon refused to comment, saying he would await developments at his next conference'. It was expected the meeting would take place tomorrow. Among other Mexican officials gloom was openly expressed. It was poiifted out that General Obregon had come to the border confident that he could persuade Generals Scott and Funston that the American expeditionary forces should be withdrawn at once. Secretary Baker's instructions to the American conferees were regarded as completely blocking the hopes of tile Mexican minister of war. T-