MEXICO

Grey River Argus, 8 April 1911, Page 2

MEXICO

NiEW YORK, Mar. 23. ■Scnor Gustave Madero, brother of the .Rev/olutionis't lea'Ji'r, ,says that Senor Limantour, the Mexican minister for Finance, will assume the Presidency of Mexico, for a time at least. iHe adds »th^t \thet Tqf'tirement .of President Diaz will pave the way for a peaceable settlement of the revoluition, \'or . (holding 'a. ,genoral election,' at' which, by a representative majority of all the electors, Mexico wil appoint a new Piesi- | dent. ' WASHINGTON, Mar. 23. Some figures just published disclose that during the last 21 years foreign interests have £175,000,000 in Mexico, irrespective !,of the capital put into the mining industry. America supplied £67,000,000 the United Kingdom £50,000,000, France £3,000,000, .Spain £470,000, Austria £80,000 and Italy £11,000. ROME. .Mkir. ii!J. General Reyes, a former Minister for War in Mexico, predicts that the revolution will son end. tn an interview he expresed satisfaction at the action of the United States concentrating troops on the frontier, and remarked that he was convinced of the 'American Government's goodwill towards Mexico. General Reyes characterised as absurd the report that japan and Mexico had entered into a sort of alliance against the United States. President Diaz, he said, possessed the influence and the force necessary to crush the rebellion, and an- "' other month wotild see the end of the outbreak. MEXICO OTY, Mar. 23. A message from iEI Pasco says' that 30 rebels and Federals were (killed in an engagement at Colonia, close to Torreon yesterday. ' The dead included Captain Durant, of the (Federal Army . It is also reported that three rebels were, -'killed and several .Federals wounded in a clash near Coyote. The War Department lias placed an order 'for the building of an armed locomotive, on which guns will ■be mounted. *