NEW DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2408, 13 March 1915, Page 9

NEW DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO

UNITED STATES' WARSHIPS. ORDERED

TO VERA CRUZ

BRITISH STEAMER-SEIZED

{By Telegraph'.—Press- issn.—Copyright.)

(E«o.-March 12, 7.15 p.m.)

London, March 12. The "Times's" Washington correspondent states that an ultimatum has been sent to General ■ Carranza regarding the safety of foreigners. The newspapers demand that President AVilson should - forgot his Indianopolis speech, and shoulder his responsibilities regarding Mexico. j il s tod that Carranza has seizthe British - steamer . Wyvisbrook '(3188 .tons); at Campeche, ana imprisoned the captain. ... ; The secretary of .the Navy Has order <ed Admiral Fletcher to.rush two American battleships from Qiiaiitanamo ;(Cuba) to. Vera Cruz—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)

,• Speaking at. Indianopolis on January '9 last, ' President Wilson . defined, his polioy on the Mexican' question as follows:—"I hold it aa a fundamental principle' that 'every people ' has the right to determine its own form of government. and until this recent revolution in Mexico, until the end of the Diaz regime, 80 per cent, .of .the people of Mexico never nad a "look-in" in determining who should be their Governors. or what x their Government should be. Now, I. ayn for the 80 per cent. It is none of my business, and it is none of your business how long they take in determining it. It is none of .my business, and it is none of your business how .they go about the businessThe country, is theirs. The Government is theirs. The liberty, if they can get- it, ia theirs. And bo far aa kny influence ?oes, .while I am President nobody shall,interfere with. them.I am. proud to belong to a strong nation .. that- says: 'This country, which 'vre could crush', shall have just as much freedom.in her own affairs as we have.'