The Anderson Daily Intelligencer

HEMP GROWERS
MAKE APPEAL
WANT
UNITED STATES
TO
TAKE ACTION IN MEX-
ICAN TROUBLE
LARGE PORTION OF
CROP THREATENED
Committee
Probably
Will
Dis-
cuss
Situation With Secretary
Bryan Monday
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON.
March 20.--A committee of hemp
growers from Yucatan, Mexico, and representatives
of American hemp importers laid
before the State department today
an appeal for action by the United
States that would terminate the revo-
lutionary troubles between General
Alvarado, the Carranza governor of
Yucatan, and an opposing faction. The
committee probably will discuss the
situation with Secretary Bryan next
Monday.
The committee said the revolution
which resulted in the recent blockade
of Progreso by Carranza threatened
the destruction of a large portion of
the crop from which most of the har-
vest binding twine used in the United
States is made. The people of Yuca-
tan, they asserted, did not wish to
take part in the revolution but were
afraid to disobey orders given them
by the revolutionists.
Already some sisal, it was said, had
been burned, at least two plantations
having been destroyed. Other reports
received here said sisal had been
burned at Merida, Progreso, and
other places to prevent it from falling
into the hands of the enemy and pro-
viding revenue.
M. J. Smith, a hemp importer, told
officials it would not be more than a
few weeks before the farmers of the
country felt the shortage in harvest
twine.
The Mexican gunboat Zaragoza at
Progreso has not interfered with the
movement of vessels, it was said.
An official message said General
Alvarado entered Merida yesterday,
the enemy fleeing at his ap-
proach. Quiet prevailed at Merida and
at Progreso.
Confirmation of the defeat of the
Carranza forces at San Carlos was
given in official dispatches.
A statement issued tonight by the
convention agency here reported the
capture of Camargo, a border city
between Nuevo Laredo and Matamo-
ros, with slight resistance, and added
that the defeated Carranza troops
continued their flight toward Mata-
moros with convention troops in hot
pursuit.
Details of recent fighting about
Monterey reached the agency today in
a letter from General Felipe An-
geles, commander at Monterey.
A
large Carranzista force, marching to
attack Monterey, were surprised near
Paredon and defeated with heavy
losses, the statement says. On the
following day another Carranzista
force, attempting to attack the city
from the north and east was repulsed
after a severe artillery fire. Perfect
order now prevails throughout the
Monterey section, General Angeles
added.
Charles
W.
Douglas, Carranza's
legal representative here, returned to-
day from a visit to Vera Cruz.
"General Carranza told me,"
said
Mr. Douglas, "that the two nations
nearest his heart were Spain and the
United States. Spain was his native
land, he said, and he looked upon the
United States as the most advanced
nation in the world."
While Mr. Douglas would not dis-
cuss the situation in Yucatan, it was
learned that General Carranza wished
to avoid actual warfare there as his
supporters in the State feared that if
the Indians who work in the hemp
fields were armed an uprising might
result later.