THE PRESIDENTS LAST WORD BUT ONE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1901, 8 November 1913, Page 5

THE PRESIDENTS LAST WORD BUT ONE.

" PEMTIMATII" TO HUERTA,

MEXICAN'S APPEAL TO FRANCE

By TolcEraDh-Piosn Association—OouyrisM "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.

Washington, November 6,

President Huerta has asked Franco to intervene, but tho latter has declined, pending a declaration of United States policy.

President Wilson reiterates that hiilitary intervention by tho United States is not contemplated. Ho refuses to state! whether 1-luera has replied to tbo latest Note. It is known that fears of the jingoistic attitude of the newspapers may possibly force matters to a head. The Note seat is described as a penulti-m-atum threatening an ultimatum in the event di tbo Huerta regime not'being eliminated. (Reo, November 7, 5.20 p.m.) Mexico City, November 7. All ftbio-bttTied men found ia tho streets are being impressed. The augmentation of the American fleet in Mexican waters is regarded as a naval demonstration. There are nine American warships at Vera Oriia, (Press Association.) Mexico Cfty, November 0. President Huerta is reported io have decided to refuse to consider tie United States's proposals, and lias ordered active couseriptiou throughout Mexico. Washington, November 6. Mr. Bryan has refused to comment oft tlio latest- development in Mexico, stating that the position is too delicate. The battleships of tho second division of fell® Atlantio Fleet have been ordered to remain at Vers Cruz, in view of eventualities. (Reo. November 7, 9.60 p.m..) London, November 7, A decree issuer! by General Huerta, suspending specio payments and declaring bank notes to bo legal tendor } has been sharply criticised in London, as being likely to disorganise foreign trade, and seriously affect the British attcl other railway companies. These companies would be forced to receive payments in depreciated currenev, while tho dividends would have to bd paid in : gold.

FELIX DIAZ STABBED, (Reo. November 7, 9.10 p.m.) Now York, November 7. A message from Havana reports that General Felix Diaz has been Blabbed. It is probable that Ms injuries will not be fatal. . Havana, November 7. A Moxiean whose name is unknown stabbed General Diaz in tho street, in-fw-ctiiig severs wounds on tho. head and' shoulders. General Diaz was sent to the hospital. The assailant, when arrested. refused to stato his reason for tho deed. According to a review of tho ■ Mexican situation m 'Current Opinion," there is a strong odour of kerosene pervading international policy go far as Great B«taift ftnd the United States aro GOn'cfcriiod* Only in the light of the fierce feud between the Pearson oil interests end iiio Standard Oil interests will it he possible, certain Berlin dailies suspect, to .interpret the events of ttai month in Meiieo. Tho inner history of that distracted land, according to tho Berlin yorwarts," a Socialist daily in touch with so.urces of diplomatic information now and then, has been made in Downing Street. British.interest in tho vicissitudes of General Hucrta, so far as that interest is official, is closely related to the supply of oil for battleships. British diplomacy is protecting tho Pearson interests, Which are British. The Pearsons have a contract with tho King's Navy. If there were no great oil fields in Mexico and if oil and the battleship were not so intimately, related, the crisis might be less acute. _ Tho German dailies are not alone in hinting at these things. They liavo been mooted in the lobbies of the House of Commons. Tiiero have been questions by members on the subject. Curious revelations might lie made, according to tho Paris "Journal," which has been interviewing- Felix Diaz, It is all a fresh instance of the workings of dollar di.plom.asy, according to the London "News," a paper which inclines now mere than ever to dejslo.ro the mysterious swiftness of the. British Government iii recognising Ruerta. There are hints of "an oil press" in Europe behind the efforts to induce our awn Government to act with energy. Euerta has impressed upon the Euro, jean mind, apparently, that he is friendlier to a policy of free access to oil than was Madero, The latter la accused of having been the champion of American oil interests, of American railroads. The South American mind lias | become impressed with this view of the Mexican crisis, as the comments of the . "Prensa" (Buenos Avres), and tho "Jour-; nal do Cometoio" (Bio do Janeiro) indicate. The topic is handled frankly in "The West Coast Loader" (Lima), an Anglo-American organ published in Pisru, which is in touch with vested intexests the Latin Hepnblics. "Oil was the brief formula whispered by men in tho cafes of Mexico City and m the American towns along tho Rio Grande as the cause of the explosion which shoflk to its foundations the great dynasty of Diaz and made the rabble and riff-raff of the streets the ruling power in Mexico." The two great corporations struggling l for supremacy in the Mexican field had at Inst come te blows. The Pearsons had tho ear of Liinantour. When tho Standard people were shut out, .they financed Mndere. Ho had no sooner corno into power than tho Pearsons picked u.p Huerui. He and the Diaz clement are so many masks for the anti-American oil interests, TlruS is the secret history of Mexico for the past few years as written in ' South America.