The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-21
GOVERNMENT BELIEVES AUERTA GOVERNMENT IS CRUMBLING
 AND DlslNTEGRATiNo.
NO SYMPATHY FOR DESERTERS
Landing of Marines Has Not Been Found Necessary--Presence Of Eng fish Ships Is for Moral Effect on the Constitutionalists.

Washington, Nov 20-The Wash.
 ington government believes the DOW.
 CT of the Huerta government is slow 1 ly "crumbling and disintegrating. No positive steps have been taken l by the administration here within the
 last few days to compel a compliance with the demand for the elimination
 of Fiuerta
 No preparations have been made
 for blockade of Mexican ports, such as have been variously reported
 Foreign interests generally will be protected by the United States and at Tuxpam. in particular, especial ef- fort will bye made to protect British interests pending the arrival of the British cruisers. The sending of the English ships is in line with pTevi- ous notification to the United States and is regarded as a normal move taken in emergencies such as exist at Tuxpam. It is intended to have soldering effect on those constitu- tionalist officers who. according to of- ficia reports, have announced their hostility to English interests
 The landing of marines has not been found necessary thus far and no instructions to that effect have been sent nor has there been any request for such instructions In the mean time Admiral Fletcher will be ex- pected to take whatever steps Ae deems necessary to protect all for eign interests
 The pareys with the constitutions alists have been carried on in no for. nal way but merely for informative purposes.
 The administration, though not condoning the inhumanity of the armed strife generally in Mexico, is 1 inclined to view with some com )la- 1 cency the geprisals by constitution. alists and federals on those officers or men who have been deserting from | side to side.
 The foregoing salient features were obtained from those with whom Pres ident Wilson discussed the Mexican situation today.
 The impression that the Huerta government is fast losing it's control over territory it has hitherto domi mated, is based on the dispatches to the state department which show also that diplomatic pressure from with out is having much to do with weak ening the resources of the provisional government.
 There was some emphasis in the de- nlal emanating from the white house 1 that any steps of summary charac- ter had been taken through instTuc- tions to Charge O'Shaughnessy with in the last few days.
 As to the future program of the | United States. the president believes that of necessity it must be kept within the secret councils of the ad- | ministration and that publication be- | forehand might impair it's efficacy. | As consequence there was no intor- nation obtainable as to the plans or purposes of the Washington govern ment in the event that Huerta should retire.
 With respect to the parleys be tween William Bayard Hale and Cen eral Carranza, the constitutionallst leader. the white house today de scribed them as designed merely to learn what was in the minds of the constitutionalist chiefs and what dis position the chiefs seemed 10 have to- ward several phases of the situation Names of provisional successors to
 Huerta or anything so specific that it might be termed negotiations had not been carried on or authorized bF
 the president, according to the white house explanation, nor was there any formal request for credentials from Mir. Hale.
 | Ii was made plain that MT. Hale had gotten the desired information
 and white house officials stated em' phatically that the parleys conducted
 oy Mir. Hale did not affect the pend 1 ing plans of the American govern
 ment and there had been no debate on
 any future program which the con
 stitutionaiists or other government
 would follow,
 l It became known also that the or
 ficia1 investigation into she execu- l tions at Juarez had not been com
 pleted but it was apparent that Pres ident Wilson views the constant Punctuation of officers from one side