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Rh The British interests have paid their taxes under protest and will probably continue so to do. This is another claim mounting up at Mexico City and Washington, for it will be filed at both places.

The claim is constantly made from Mexico City that Carranza has quieted Mexico except in mountain regions or distant places and should have financial support from the United States. Without desiring to make trouble, let me narrate some instances that refute this claim.

Riding on a flat car toward Cerro Azul in March, 1917, and within two hundred miles of the City of Mexico, the telegraph poles were noted upon which, a few days preceding, the anti-Carranzistas had hanged six Indians in reprisal for the raid of their tribe upon a village near by. The claim was that the Carranzista people had given this Indian tribe arms and enabled them to raid, pillage, and burn the village of Amatlan, the ruins of which were visible on the mountain side as we passed on the railroad a few miles away.

This apparently had been the largest native city or village between Tampico and Tuxpan.