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TIA JUANA PROJECT IS THREATENED. In spite of the announcement by the promoters of the Tia Juana race Hack in lower California that the inaugural in. ■.-ting will positively apea on Christmas dav and run loo days. General Venustiano Car-ranza. provisional president of Mexico, is still determined that there will be no racing in Iower California. When General Carranza learned several weeks ago that several San Frauciscans were interested in financing the Tia Juana protect be instructed bis local consul-general. Ramon P. de Negri, to inform those persons that the Tia Juana concession was granted without authority and that the movement would be halted. Consul-. Iciicral de Negri said yesterday that he carried through the instructions of the Mexican department of foreign affairs, but that 1. is warning was not heeded. "If they will not listen the promoters will have to suffer the consequences." explains He Negri. "The Mexican government duly informed the men behind tlie movement lo establish racing at Tia Juana that the concession was granted without the proper authorization of General Carranza. Within a few days Lower California will lie taken by force and the building of the race track will he stopped." The promoters of the Tia Juana race track are seemingly not placing much weight in General Car-ranzas warning. They have lieen going right along with the work of constructing a m.Klern racing plant and extra men have been employed so that everything will he iu readiness for the opening on Christmas day. The concession is held by Alberto Madero. a relative of the former president of Mexico, and was granted by F.steban Canto, who styles himself governor of Lairei California. George Crowley, who sold out his hotel in San Francisco to go to Tia Juana to become interested in the race meeting, and A. B. Spreckels are two of the local men who are financing the project and they claim that the concession was secured in good faith ami if necessary they will carry their light to the stale department at Washington to protect their rights. Tliere was a rumor current in El Paso that General Carranza was opfMised to |*ermitting the Juarez meeting to open, but recent dispatches state that the provisional president is powerless to take action because the Mexican constitution calls for a government in power to respect the concession granted l-y a previous government. — San Francisco Chronicle.
