MEXICO.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 83, 14 March 1916, Page 5

MEXICO.

VILLA'S LITTLE CAME. HAND IN CLOVE WITH CERMANY. (Onttht> Pvr,m Association.} (Received 8.30 a.m.)' Washington, March 13. Mrs Wright, an American, states that General Villa told his lieutenants in her hearing that if he succeeded in forcing President Wilson's hand, Germany would be bound to step in. This is taken to indicate that General Villa gave his ear to the Potsdam propagandists.

Villa has been very bitter against the United States ever since his rival, Carranza, was acknowledged as the President of Mexico. President Wilson's attitude towards the troubles which have made Mexico a brawling ground for several years past has had a good deal of the Micawber about it. The several different rebel parties in Mexico were allowed to • fight much as they liked, and the balance of pWer drifted first to one side and then to the other. Carranza and Villa were the two strongest men in the country, and for some time, after ali 'sides had fought themselves into something like*, a standstill, it was. a toss up who would get the recognition of the United States, whose Government wanted to pick on the man who had most chance of bringing about a 'stable state of Government, or something as near that as one could expect in a Central American republic. Last year the U.S.A. recognised Carranza as President of Mexico, and since .then Villa has shown his resentment whenever occasion offered.