MEXICAN AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2205, 18 July 1914, Page 5

MEXICAN AFFAIRS

- , -4 AN OFFER . . PEACEFUL POSSESSION CARBAJAL WILL RESIGN. HUERTANS LEAVE MEXICO , By Telegraph-Press Aesociation-CopyiiuK (Rec. July 17, 10.40 p.m.) • Washington, July 17. benor Francisco Carbajal has informed Mr. Bryan that lio intended to retire from tho Mexican Presidency in ravour of General Carranza. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. Mexico City, July 17. " J.ne Peace Commission has left en route for Gualajara to invite the Constitutionalists to take peaceful possession of Mexico City. General Carranza states that unconditional surrender would only be accepted (together with tho carrying put of .reforms for which tho Constitutionalists liave been fighting Senora Huerta and other members oi the Huertan entourage have boarded the British cruiser Bristol at Puerto Rico. THE SUPREME TEST. , . , "TlmM" and BytaeT*"Bun." Ssrvlcee. (Rec. July 17, 5.30 p.m.) _ Washington, July 16.' iiuerta s resignation has caused a sensation here. It is now clear that President Wilson's policy must soon face the supremetest.' . ■■ . ■ • > _ . , GHASTLY PERSECUTION.' "Xitues" and Sydney "Sun" BervlMe. Vera Cruz, July 16. Kefugees declare that there has been ghastly persecution of Catholics by General Villa's followers. Some Catholics wero stripped, lashed, branded with hot irons, and mutilated. Sis who wore hanged were repeatedly cut down and revived for the amusement of the drunken soldiers. HUERTA'S BITTER COMPLAINTS. •'■_ . Mexico City, July. 16. Huerta, m a statement announcing his resignation, alludes bitterly, .to ;tho outrage committed by the American fleet m capturing Vera Cruz, also to tho American support of the (Mstitutionnlists. , The attitude of tho Mexican Government during its short life had, however, dealt a death blow unjust power of the United States. Later, strong workers would come.wfe> would undoubtedly end this power, which has committed so many outrages upon tho American continent. : Deputy Blanco later, during a sitting of tho Chamber, hotly attacked the American political methods, which, ho said, drovo them to interfere in Mexico. Blanco was loudly cheered. Reports are current of the formation of a Junta at El Paso, intended to start a counter revolution in favour of Felix Diaz against the Constitutionalists. It,is understood Huerta has left for Puerto Mexico, whence he intends to, depart for Europe, and that' Senor Blanquet, the War Minister, is accompanying him. 1 '