IF VILLA BECOMES THE PRESIDENT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2170, 8 June 1914, Page 5

IF VILLA BECOMES THE PRESIDENT

WHAT GREAT BRITAIN WILL DO MEXICAN SITUATION SIR E. GREY AND PRESIDENT WILSON By Teleeraph—Press Association-Cdpyrigltt (Rec. June 7, 5.5 p.m.) London,' Juno G. Tho "Daily Express" states that Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of Slate for Foreign Affairs) informed President Wilson in friondly tut unequivocal terms that if, as a result of his support, Villa becomes President of Mexico, Great Britain will demand and exact satisfaction for Mr. Benton's murder. AMERICANS AT VERA CRUZ. PRESERVING LAW AND ORDER. New York, Juno 5. At Annapolis, Maryland, President Wilson, addressing the Naval Cadets, alluded to.Mexico. Ho said: "I pray | God the boys will not have to fight any more," and added that tho real good Americans could do to Mexicans had boon done at Vera Cruz, where they were not strutting and blustering, but managing the town's aifairs and preserving law and order to tho best of their ability. Vera Cruziaus ought to think differently of Americans hereafter, instead of hating and despising them as now. LANDING OF ARMS,, 'NOW TO BE PROHIBITED. Mexico City, Juno 5. Tho United States Atlantic fleet at Vera Cruz has been ordered to prevent all ships'carrying arms and ammunition from landing their cargoes at any Mexican port for tho rebels or Hucrta, ponding tho outcomo of the Mediation Conference. Tho Constitutionalists levied a forced loan of a million dollars (£200,(100) from Spaniards at Tepic, notifying them afterwards to leave tho city under peril of imprisonment OIL PROPERTIES. . STATUS QUO TO BE'OBSERVED. London, Juno 6. The United States, tho, Netherlands, and Great Britain have agreed to presorvo tho status quo in' Mexico as far as the ownership of oil properties is concerned.