CRISIS IN MEXICO

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 61, 5 December 1919, Page 7

CRISIS IN MEXICO

; —* —— . THE BREACH WITH AMERICA . A NEW NOTE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Mexico City, December 3. The Mexican Senate passed a resolution entrusting to President Carranzo. the sole control of negotiations with the United Slates—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE AMERICAN NOTE. : New York, November 30. It is unoerstood that the new Note reaffirms the, attitude ©pressed in the former message to Mexico, and points out that the 1 United States considers the .Tonkins incident only one of many wrongs-which Mexico has failed to remedy. It is believed that the Note also insists that Mexico must give adequate protection fdr Americans, and expresses surnrise at. the tone of Carranza's reply. Tt is exnected that Congress w'ill consider the Mexican situation as soon as it con-venes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

DISCUSSED IN UNITED STATES ■ SENATE.'

Washington, December 3. Senator A. IS. Fall, speaking in the Senale. offered a motion to sever foreign relations with Mexico. .

Senator Full is Chairman of the Committee which is investigating Moxican affairs. He alleged that the Mexicans have been actively distributing Bolshevik literature in the United States. The evidence already collcctcd would astound the world if rcvealeo'.

The motion was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee.

Senator Ashurst said that the United States oa'.'ht immediately to mobilise in view of the threatening character of the Mexican forces on the American border. For five years the United States had stood unheard-of instills, and ought at least to protect Americans within America's borders.—Atts.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

AN IMMINENT BREACH. New York, November 30. The Washington correspondent of tho New York "Times" says it is bclieveo that the United States and Mexico ,are newer a severance of diplomatic relations than they have been at any time since (lie United States recognised the Carranza Government. The State Department is maintaining silence, because it does not wish to inflame pop'ttlar sentiment or to add to the seriousness of the situation. 11 i 9 understood that a newNote lo Mexico is being framed.—Aus.N./i. Cable Assn.