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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1916
Page
1
Washington awaits Carranza’s final policy statement as Secretary Lansing’s note demands release of Carrizal prisoners and clarifies U S aims. The note arrives after reporting that Mexican officers directed resistance to American forces, affecting possible war state and congressional briefing.
Theodore Roosevelt, reading to the Progressive national committee in Chicago, declines the party’s presidential bid and urges support for Hughes. He calls the movement strong but notes the party cannot win under current conditions and urges unity to back Hughes for the country’s sake.
Washington June 26 South and Central American republics will not offer mediation in the Mexican crisis to the United States at this time Minister Calderon of Bolivia announced after a conference with Secretary Lansing He said Lansing indicated the United States did not consider mediation timely and Latin America may reconsider after a reply to the US note to the de facto Mexican government.
Paris dispatch notes German forces three-quarters of a mile from Verdun fortifications with no major relief operations elsewhere. French war office says heavy artillery duels continue along the Meuse and Argonne fronts. A night French capture included German trench elements between Fumin and Chenois Wood.
Reports say First Chief Carranza dismissed General Alfredo Ricaut and reinstalled General Emiliano Nafarrate at Tampico over Ricaut’s failure to attack American forces chasing bandits on June 17. Brownsville dispatch notes unconfirmed swap claims. Nafarrate leads Tamaulipas, not Matamoros, officials claim.
Postmaster General Burleson reports that last quarter's postal receipts exceed prior records and that the year ending June 30 will total about 15 million dollars, from 15 to 20 million higher than the previous banner year. He anticipates a surplus over a million dollars for the year.
U S authorities seized all arms and ammunition in pawn shops and hardware stores in Laredo, placing them in the customs house. In New York a suspected bomb and nine sticks of dynamite were found behind a door of the federal building entrance, with scorched wrapping paper.
For San Antonio and vicinity the sky will be partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with warmer temperatures expected.
ST LOUIS 70 cloudy wind SW 20 probable clear Tuesday low 68. CHICAGO 70 cloudy wind SW 18 probable clear Tuesday low 66. MILWAUKEE 66 cloudy wind SW 16 probable clear Tuesday low 64. KANSAS CITY 66 partly cloudy wind N 8 probable clear Tuesday low 64. NEW YORK 70 cloudy wind ENE 5 probable cloudy Tuesday low ?. WASHINGTON 72 partly cloudy wind SE 6 probable cloudy Tuesday low ?
London dispatches report a major Russian front battle developing in the Lutsk salient. Petrograd updates suggest German forces have made a slight impression as the offensive intensifies, marking one of the war’s significant struggles.
The war office announced occupation of Bukowina, with Kimpelung capture sealing control. Over 2,000 prisoners were taken as Austrians retreated toward Jokobeny and Beetrometti Wiznic heights. Russian advances also report Wiltschoff Toulonoff and clashes near Czartoriysk Lutsk Radviloff.
Rome reports a general Austrian retreat in the Trentino district over a twenty mile sector. The Italian war office says Italians press the pursuit vigorously.
Soviet forces push toward Kovel as German reports claim gains near Zaturze. Since June 16 the German war office says over 11,000 Russian prisoners plus two cannons and fifty four machine guns captured in the sector.
A meteorology summary notes a storm area over New Mexico and Texas may bring increasing cloudiness Monday morning. Forecasters say rain is not definite, but recent data show scattered rainfall in northern and eastern parts of the state, with measured amounts in Longview, Sherman, Paris, and Nacogdoches.
Information from apparently reliable sources says Francisco Villa, recently at Santa Rosalia, has agreed with the de facto government. The move is reportedly being used to urge his followers to enlist with the Carranza forces.
Washington dispatch reports Captain Morey and four troopers saved by Major Jenkins of the Eleventh Cavalry headed the relief column. The country near Carrizal was thoroughly searched and no further survivors or results of the fight were found.
United States soldiers trench a line of breastworks near the immigration office after reports that 1500 Mexican troops have arrived within miles of Naco Sonora. Citizens of Naco organize a home guard company.
The first bale of the 1916 cot ton crop sold Monday afternoon at auction in San Antonio for 15 3 4 cents per pound. F S Mangham of Cuero bought it and W C Robards of San Antonio was the runner up. The 546 pound bale brought 86 dollars with a 62 dollar premium. It was shipped to the Cotton Exchange Saturday by Miller Mercantile Co of Dilley. Nat Tannenbaum conducted the sale.
A Madrid dispatch in the Daily Telegraph says a German submarine is due in New York on Sunday June 25 with a message for President Wilson. The note would surpass the U-35 which carried a letter to King Alfonso.
About 10 000 regular and militia troops will camp on the maneuver field north of Fort Sam Houston as part of General Funston plan to distribute militia nationwide and form ten new regular regiments. Four new regiments will be organized in San Antonio and quartered here with six militia regiments to be stationed on the field. Details await War Department direction. initial camp size likely 10 000.
On June 26 troops from New York Massachusetts and New Jersey were ordered to entrain for the Mexican border. The forces include 16 000 men with nine infantry regiments one squadron and six cavalry troops two signal corps companies three field artillery battalions and three hospital and ambulance units. Major General Leonard Wood directed rapid deployment with all state militia off the East Coast. coast artillery units also departed for Southern California.
Reports circulated in Columbus New Mexico that another engagement between American and Carranza troops occurred near Villa Ahumada, but army officials offered no confirmation. Mexican officials in El Paso and Juarez said they had heard nothing about fighting at Villa Ahumada or elsewhere.
Massachusetts training ship Ranger was in a fog tied collision with a British warship believed to be a merchant auxiliary on patrol duty off Montauk Point Long Island. A wireless message said neither vessel was seriously damaged.
The yacht Casiana of the Huasteca Petroleum Company arrived at Port Aransas, Texas, from Tampico with 92 American and British refugees from oil fields. The vessel prepared to return soon for a second cargo.
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