"VIA MEDIA"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 41, 11 June 1914, Page 5

"VIA MEDIA"

PEACE MEDIATORS' DIFFICULTY IBr KLScnio Telegraph—Cop* ri«ht: {United Prim Amooiahon,.] (Received 11.26 a.m.) , ti : New York, June 10. A: i question -has arisen which is ■ to prolong the peace conference considerably. The point is how the executive power 'shalT be transferred _ frim Huerta : to provisional" president." The Mexican delegates say the new President will take over power as approved by the Constitution. This means the tacit recognition of Huerta by the American Government, which Objects to anything of the kind. It- is t thought likely .that a via media will be'found. The mediators 1 suggestion is that the United States need not recognise ~< any President until the Huretans and Constitutionalists both agree to ac- ... cept Titm..' The peace plan already agreed to tentatively gives the Constitutional- . ist* the controlling voice in the new Government. ; •, „ ,;.,, The only obstacle is the refusal, of the Constitutionalists to participate in the proposed settlement.