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AMBASSADOR
HAS NO STANDING
Mexico Refuses to Recognize
Wilson Officially
NEWSPAPERS ATTACK u S.
Declares All Consu!s Should Be With.
drawn Until Mexican Government is
Recognized.

Declares All consu!s Should Be With
drawn Until Mexican Government Is
iReeognized.
Mexico City Mex. May 10.-Henry
lhne Wilson. United States ambassa-
DIR to Mexico, has no official standing
q Mexico in the eyes Of the present
administration.
This Is not matter of record, but
vas unoficially stated by Provisional
PRESIDENT Huerta- He said:
s@As a personal friend I am always
eIad to treat with Mr.. Wilson, but di-
dramatically he has no standing"
This has not been made clear In
o6icial declarations, but the public
and the press generally have not failed
: to place this Interpretation on the sit
untion.
Ambassador Wilson reported the in
c1dent to the state department at
Washington, although he may posi-
lily have confined himself to the Off
sc3al declarations by Provisional Presi-
dbnt Huerta, which leaves him quasi
UB60Ql0S as q oAPAS1A1I.
The newspaper Ell Pals is an edi
4prial bitterly censures the attitude OF
tho United States, declaring that it
should in view of the policy of non
recognition Of Mexico withdraw from
Mexico not only Ambassador Wilson,
hit Its consular officers.
The question of the claims arising
ont Of the revolution, the Chamizai
dispute and the Colorado river water
Fights, as well as other matters, were
dfscussed by Provisional President
Huerta and Ambassador Wilson at the
incention of the new administration.
General Huerta then promised imme-
date settlement, authorizing Francisco
de la Barra, the foreign minister, to
make speedy arrangement with Am
bassador Wilson, but nothing has yet
been settled.
In the official statement President
Huerta pointed out that for the time
sheing the American ambassador should
understand the necessity which the
4 SEovernment of Mexico has for abstain
ing from treating any official matter,
With the exception of urgent affairs or
ordinary procedure. for the simple rea-
ron that while the government of the
United States did not recognize the
I noyernment of Mexico all agreements
Nould be Ineffective in view of the
!; ret that the government Of Mexico
S nas no personality before the govern
ent 81 the United States.
Fed als under General Casas Lopez
are falling back on Saltillo, according
to reports received from Governor Car
fanza at Monclova. He said consti-
tutionalist column was following the
federals and that more state troops
were in their front
Formal demands for the surrender
OF Juarez were received by Colonel
Juan D. Vasquez, commander of the
federal garrison Of the border town.
The letter demanding the surrender
is said to have been signed by~a con
stitutional leader In the field below
the Texas border, who declared that
1900 insurgents would attack.
Tired of being raided and despoiled
by ever passing bands of brigands, the
little American colony at San Die
quito, Mex, recently took to the war
path. When band Of fourteen out.
laws swooped down upon the colony
ten colonists, reinforced by five Mexi
can soldiers and few Mexican civil.
ians, pursued and defeated the looters
and recovered a number Of stolen
horses.