CARRANZA'S MOVE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14985, 4 June 1914, Page 11

CARRANZA'S MOVE.

Y/Y '■&..'. i .D.-CLARES HIMSELF PROVIn£ .." ; : - .SION.IL PRESIDED. .YV & ..' Jnne 3rd. 7.5 p.m.) £..- 'H''- . :,.;-V-:. ; ';. MEXICO CITY, June 2.. .?- ' J 'Carranza has declared him-x-w V -i6U^ i n&ional President.' ' '^AMmCA^ : INTERVENTION. •v.2 Yr': M__D__£ro__s at "work.

'V.v V . (JBO.X OCR OWN* COKKESrONDENT.) ,'f i;;;"''; ; t -- ; >SJ-J. FRANCISCO, May 10. -.7^. Those Americans who were anxious t| ;vAfof:the-Pnited States to go to war with 'M |^ A -tfexico, - and who thought that' their j|| "been realised when President ■"1 Y|JWilson ordered the occupation of Vera :gj Mexico's chief port, .are ; the most ii| people on this continent Y|; IgJ^j-Y.-What-littlo of enthusiasnrand Yf |fe_eiyour -there ever was in the combat Y| :oi.?s entirely evaporated. It.is but a i"f S)2l*suaK subject of conversation,, and Y|, jjij Jiewspapors that at first spread &evenI'|g column : headlines across their front relegated Mexico'to the | l^ji^de;pages. President Wilson, firm in :| £Yi-£&niari_'that reparation be paid the j| t|Cn.t)Si States for tiie insult to her flag, . f T ". r^, '?-®?s .made good his promise ■■J [|| that lns'country is not seeking one foot V! :t'i > ■" Hnerta himself has Yf than there | -g!: had been.'reason -to expect.' All isqniet '•.'*. Yf ; a. \!Ycr_,.Cru_;. where an American civil :| at V i.': l by Huerta €6 re■■s. or to-attack the M 14 A#rae_. j outposts. While there have •*i W&Mea'rir'&ine' . demonstrations - against m |#-i.^«?a nS Y«tin; in Mexico ■'City, "the '& ?%J».«WUaiess.--of; the '.: outbreak has been _ e-pESerated,. it, now appears, $* real damage has been inH <?4"^t- < "*!' n P° n ine property or persons of m it.fiA'se|ican citizens ; since the taking of H a ttentidn: is-now concentrated m igfcOmn' the-,mediation offered: by the : reI §.f.itf__entatives of Argentina, Ifrazil, and m and, accepted by the United _ Government 0 and. Hnerta. .The * p|w.t formal meeting of, the three South 1 envoys with theYrepresenta--1 oi America and l-Slexico will, be I .at Niagara, Canada,.on-May 18tb. b is .sbpie, hope that the. scope'of I mediation may be enlarged to itako s_f- IMhaotalphe'i the .controversy between I ggthis^country-and the Huerta• admihiV S Yhut^ Kaho . the internal , disseri_t ITiia is the. wish of ll" '$■. American intermediaries; ''4 #i ,- ?S?^ : . so ' notified Oarranj'a and 3 $::'■■} V of the - faction tliat is pi ?;.-.;^l^?j*a..Huerta - so;; close, in military I In reply to the-jiivitation ,f Y.*-%i^i. icipate by sending a representa- ;« Carranza, replied that j - /iU^M^med> it- iuconvenient to snsperd i* , against Huerta, -on the I ; V* such suspension would only '4 ■_;'• \sccrue < to the beheSt of Hnerta. The if -'4 ; still have hopes that:Car_anza I YY'?II1 the deliberatiotis I The United States Govern- | W>-®P«- too K _is anxious that the conferI ■il_^*-^'\*? u -U;;not i l)e confined to a mere I f.viS"^*^? 1 -*''. : of ;the dispute oyer the I incident," but would aim to I a. solution .of the .whole i IrS m *??<-*->. problem and the establishment I Government that I W* c ®iul&- be,recognised by the-world. I statements come from t fSrtl: 3 -' 00 City as to-Huerta's attitude. . is that he is not only willinc . ;%¥;?*:»nxious; to retire- as . provisional I attaching, the-one condition ' . fiY'.tnat.he bo assured safe oondact to a ' .v-:-Pjrt;and be placed on a foreign ship. i rebel-success in the • ; St: north' has . doubtless detracted from ! Ylt'"^-^- 1 popnlarity in Mexico City, ' .■:Y"nd..it would seem not incredible that ' : glad enough to resign and ' Y,«.-S?t-away "from the country bafbro what IYY«Pfea*s the inevitable crash." This, .Vi he denies. The rebels havo - tY^thin> the past two weeks won several ! 'over- the Huerta troops, : and ' r Y a f&; constantly occupying new terri- • .■:Y wry. They now have three converging ( V in operation, each within v i*_*. miles .of Mexico City. General vY J*reSon, with 15,000 men, operating ] } ifrom the Pacific Coast side, is besieging j V and has captured all the in- j -* territory, and is threatening f :Y ; Cxty .fron. the west. Another ' ' V has just won a battle'near San j -Y L 300 miles.north bf the . city. This is the southernmost 1 1.-;.? 08 * which the Constitntionalists have reached. Tho third army division £ I."■" ? "Uacking Tampico, on the oast coast. ' ? .*t is planned to make a general advance j %■■: .<m;3Jexiccf City from tbe north, west .< ;h a Jjd «ast, within three weeks. E § i;,y*k e 'situation at Vera Cruz is that the | *' States forces are simply holding i I*,v*|at-they had taken at the time the ] v ; y<»ffer of mediation was made and ae-;i:,*cept-d. !: The army has taken over from _ fY i-- e , na *T controlof the situation, and j Frederick Funston, known to t JjY'&IS B . 6S the caoturer of Aquinaldo, the T -§... fihpino is in charge. . Tha oifcy ] j;>*iS;.--ing administered by American ofia- t rY tho laws of Mexico, but the j, .1.. 5^. 'government is subordinate to mar- ' V la*v. There is no evidence there 1 .5".: g*t M _xico is in the midst of a crisis, t fr^*§vP- a : re open as usuaL and women J #■ the streets without fear. .I :^-'. '.".."Y-, • : ■ ' . I

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