No Change.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 5

No Change.

THE MEXICAN CRISIS.

BRITISH WARSHIPS ON PATROL.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association, i Guatemala, January 3. "When the Dutch steamer Marowijno arrived at Belize, from New Orleans, British bluejackets from H.M.S. Lancaster boarded the steamer, refusing to allow Senor Castillo, a Mexican constitutionalist, to land. The warship's boats patrolled the bay to prevent Mexicans entering Mexico via Yucatan or Chiapas Pass. ' Mr Christian Wilson, American Consul-General, boarded the cruiser Chester and conferred at length with Mr Lind, the American envoy. The latter afterwards departed, returning to Mexico.

The President, asserts that there is no change in the situation. PROTECTING REFUGEES. Mexico City, January 3. Presidio. Texas, reports that 2000 Mexican refugees, including halfstarved women and children, rushed across the frontier seeking to escape from the battle which is raging around Ojinaja. The American authorities afforded them protection. The fighting is still resulttess, the Federal troops holding the town.