AN ULTIMATUM TO HUERTA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 5

AN ULTIMATUM TO HUERTA.

FROM WASHINGTON.

ORDERED TO RESIGN IMMEDIATELY.

FREE ELECTION INSISTED ON.

By Toleeraßli—Press Association—Cop jrislit (Reo. November 4, 11.20 p.m.) Mexico City, November 4. An ultimatum has been received from Washington ordering Huerta to resign the Presidency immediately, and not to allow General Blanquet, Vice-President, to succeed him, but, instead, to allow a free election to' be held. No answer has been roturned. It is unlikely that Huerta will assent. MORAL SUPPORT FOR OARRANZA. (Reo. November 5, 0.20 a.m.) London, November 4. The newspapers give prominence to Sonator Baco.i's declaration that nothing was furtlior from tho thoughts of the United States than tho conquest and acquisition of Moxican territory. The "Saily Telegraph's" Washington correspondent 6tates that President Wilson insists upon/tho elimination cf the Huerta regime either by the United States' intervention as a police power or tho recognition of the revolutionaries under Genoral Carranza as a do facto Government, lending Carranza tho United State's moral supjwrt.

President Wilson's emissary is now investigating tho revolutionary camps. YELLOW PRESS NEWS FROM MEXICO. BRIBES FOR PARTISAN REPORTS. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, November 3. The Mexican correspondent of "Tho Times" says that nil news distributed through American channels is untrustworthy, owing to the "yellow press" being often paid bv the rebels for sympathetic reports. He personally investigated the matter and found that both .the rebels and General Huerta would expel any correspondent sending news unfavourable to their particular ends. Ho instances tho Government's reports to the effect that all tho States • were free from fighting, but ho found, personally, that four of the railways running from the Unite'd States have been blocked by fighting rebel troops—mostly uneducated peons—who wero not con? trollablo by their officeTS._ Hie men plunder rich and poor alike, and, not content with killing, they mutilate the bodies of tho killed, Tho Federals, tho correspondent says, are .of ft better class, and only requisition food, etc., when compelled to do so.

BRITISH EMBASSY AND THE

MEXICAN CRISIS.

London, November 3. Advices from New York state that Americans aro commenting on tho British Ambassador's • absence from during tho Mexican crisis. Tho Foreign Ofßco explains that Sir C. Spring-Rice is _ resting in New HampshiTO owing to ill-health, and adds that tho work of tho Embassy is being performed'to'Sir Edward Grey's full satisfaction. FINANCIAL .CRISIS TIDED OVER. "Tijnes"—Svdne.v "Sun" Snecial Cables, (Reo. November 4, 5.5 p.m.) Mexico City, .November 4. Huerta temporarily '.tided 1 iover . a financial crisis by compelling the National Bank and the Roman Catholic party each to advance When this sum has been exhausted ho intends drawing upon tho State Treasuries.Wholesale political arrests ftre proceeding. Tho policy of appointing political opponents as diplomatists abroad has been abandoned 1 .