MEXICAN 'AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 7

MEXICAN 'AFFAIRS.

HUERTA'S PLAN. TO REMAIN VIRTUAL RULER. By Telwaph— Prata Ksoolatlon—OonjiiiM '•"Times"—Sydney "Sun." Special Cables. London, October 31. President Wilson hopes to eliminate President Huerta, who has just been re-eleoted, not by voluntary resignation of the Mexican Presidency, but by alienating, hia supporters. Intelligent opinion in Washington fears that President Wilson is dreading peace while drifting to war. Advices received in Washington state that General Huorta intends, after retiring from the Presidency, to assume the Comntandership-in-Chief of the .'Army, thus enabling him to remain tho ■'virtual ruler of Mexico. DIAZ LEAVES FOR HAVANA. Vera Cruz (Mexloo), Oct. 81. General Diaz has left aboard the warihip Michigan, bound for Havana. MANY POLICEMEN KILLED. Washington, October 81. Nows from San Luis Potosi, Central Mexico,' Btates .that six hundred revolutionists captured a force of fifty police engaged in protecting a ranch and ikilled all except three. They then hanged tho bodies to trees. The survivors ■ have reaohed San Luis 'Potosi with evidence of the butchery. SAVED BY STRATEGY. JBy Teleffraph—Press Association—Oopyrijrht . (Reo. November 2, 5.5 p.m.) Mexico City, November 1. Mrs. John Lind, who has arrived from Vera Cruz, relates how she saved two Mexican legislators. / When Huerta's agents searched the liner Morro Castle End arrested six legislators, two others hid in Mrs. Lind's stateroom. As she was tho wife of an American enVoy, the detectives were afraid to search 'ftho stateroom, and retired baffled.