Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-27
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for a like purpose, in both cases the
action being the result Of an under
standing between European powers,
with a probability that other nations
having interests in Mexico or citizens
in any considerable number will fol-
low the example.
Serious Conditions Reported.
NEW ORLEANS, April 27.-Declaring
that since President Taft issued his re-
cent proclamation to Americans in Mex
leo life for Americans in all parts Of that
republic has become unbearable, Clement
Guion, owner OF the Julia Carlisle mines.
in Chihuahua, arrived here yesterday, and
asserted that conditions below the Rio
Grande are SO serious that nothing can
prevent the Intervention Of the American
government within sixty days.
Mr. Guion is q mining engineer of New
York. and formerly was a lieutenant in
the United States Navy. His father, he
said, was president Of the United States
Mail Steamship Company Of New York.
Quiet in One District.
The consul at Hermosillo has reported
to the State Department that no Ameri-
cans are in danger OF their lives, either
at Los Mochis or in Esperanto, Sonora
Train service Is running, there are no
Americans have been molested. The
YaQuis have not troubled Americans. All
the foreigners at Lluyia de Orc are re-
ported, under date Of the 10th, as safe
rumor Of the taking by the rebels Of
Cuatro Cienegas has not been confirmed.
Senior Don Gilberto Crespo Martinez,
the retiring Mexican ambassador, called
at the State Department today to say
farewell preparatory to going to Vienna
as ambassador to that capital. Senior
Crespo will sal from New York next
Wednesday on an Austrian liner for
Trieste via the Azores, Gibraltar and
Venice. His wife is awaiting him in
which Influenced the ambassador in Sc
curing q transfer to his old post was his
desire to rejoin his family. The retiring
ambassador speaks In terms OF high
praise OF the treatment he has received
at the hands OF the officials Of this gov
eminent and Of the American people
with whom he has come in contact in the
nine months he has resided in Washing
ton.
Praises Newspaper Men.
He was particularly grateful for the
treatment he had received from the
American press, for the members OF
which he expressed the highest admira-
ton. declaring that from his PERSONAL OBJ
servation he now fully realized why the
American people sometimes delighted to
select from the ranks of the newspaper
men their representatives in the places of
high responsibility and honor.
In diplomatic circles attention IL called
to the fact that even in his short career
in Washington Senior Cres.o has been
able to achieve an object for which not
only, his immediate predecessors in ONCE.
but even American Secretaries OF State
had labored in vain for quarter of q
century.
That was to secure legislation mod
ernizing the antiQuated American neu-
traltty laws so as to prevent the
United States from being q base Of
hostile operation by irresponsible revo-
lutionists against established govern
ments with which the country was in
friendly relations.
Senior Calero. with his wife and fam
lily, is now on his way from the City OF
Mexico to Washington. Until Senior
Calero assumes his duties as ambassa-
dor here the business of the Mexican
embassy will be conducted by Senior
Cueva, the first secretary.