HUERTA'S RESIGNATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 670, 20 May 1914, Page 5

HUERTA'S RESIGNATION.

IN HANDS OF DELEGATES

PACIFICATION OP MEXICO, »

BY BRITISH STEAMER.

By Telegraph.—Press Association— Copyright Washington, Monday.

Husrta has authorised tha Mexican paace delegates to submit his reeignation to tha Mediation Conference if such a coursa be found essential to a settlement of the peace negotiations. ' It is understood that its likeljf that the scope of the negotia-i tiona will ,be widened in order to include tha best means of pacifying Mexico,

Ninety American refugees escaped aboard the Cetriana, a British steamer, while an angry Mexican mob at Mazanillo, a port on the west coast, threatened to board the vessel and sink her at the wharf.

They actually attempted to mine her, dynamite being placed beneath a Mexican steamer laden with inflammable material, which anchored 10ft from the Cetriana.

Lieut. Minstsr, of the British Naval Reserve, manoeuvred ths Catriana out of danger as the American warship Raleigh arrived. Aa the Cetriana was leaving, the Mexicans despatched a steamer with the apparent intention of ramming the Getriana, but the escape of convicts aboard the Mexican vesssi, and ths necessity for recapturing them after they had been forced aft by a rifle fusilade, gave the Cetiiana an

opportunity to escape. A report from the American commander at Vera Cruz states that the Mexicans, who aru advancing towards the coast, have blown up the InterOceanic railway bridge, 28 miles from Vera Cruz, spanning the Antigau river.

CONDITIONS OF RESIGNATION

PEACE DELEGATES INSTRUCTED.

Received this day, 11 a.m. * New York, Tuesday. It is understood Huerta makes it a v condition of his retirement from the f Presidency that he has some voice in naming his successor; a loan of eight |C millions sterling from the United States for ninety-nine years; and the .* of Magdalena Bay for naval target practice at a rental • of two hundred thousand yearly. - Vera Cruz, Tuesday. Rumours of pending revolt at Mexico »' City continue, but it i 3 impissibla to i verify them.