Evening journal., 1913-11-17
DEFIANCE BY
HUERTA FAILS
TO ALTER The
WILSON PLAN
President Is Confident That
FOrCefuI Diplomacy VIII
Yet Bring Order
In Mexico
DENIES THAT LIND is
LEAVING VERA CRUZ
By JOHN EDWIN NEvIN,
stan Correspondent Of the Unitea

stan Correspondent of the Unite0
Press.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Joha
Lind is not fleeing from Vera Cruz.
Neither is Charge o'shaughnesay
abandoning our embassy In Mexico
City. And so far as President Wilson
is concerned he was extremely con-
hdent today that forcehIl diplomacy
VIII yet bring order out Of chaos
south OF the Rio Grando.
The President made Il very plain
at his conference with the newepaper
correspondents today that progress
toward peace in Mexico is stili be-
ing made. The defiant utterances Of
Dictator Huerta that he will not
Quit fail to change the situation. And
so FAR as the administration Is con-
cerned, the ousting OF Manuel Cerza
Aidape as minister OF the interior
from Huerta's cabinet, can have no
effect on its plans.
The newspaper reports from Vera
Cruz that O'Shaughnessy was about
to leave Mexico City aud that John
Lind was about 70 go aboard an
American battleship. We're news" To
the President. He told his callers
that they were fakes. No orders
bearing them out have been sent to
either O'Shaughnessy or Lind and un-
less tho Charge should be handed his
passports by Huerta he will remain
a. the Mexico City embassy operating
under orders sent 10 him by Lind.
Tho administration believes that
} us policy of diplomatic starvation
4 TOT huerta and his supporters is
I telowly but surely making bcadwav
q Tho Huerta supplies of cash abroal
have been absolutely cut OF lLsi
I. now keeping his government
! on forced Internal loans N
0 mitted these must soon be exha
- When that time comes the
States expects that Hucrtas lie H
ants viii quickly desert him.
with the dictator and an no starids
for eliminated. the work OF reoreani-
zation must begin.
Should it develop that Huerta is get.
ting cash through underground channels
then Carranza and his followers will be
encouraged Co rush through their pro-
gram for the capture OF Mexico CITY
II viii require only the signing of an
order by the President TO raise the
embargo on arms But this will be ia
the nature Of a last step, TO be taken
after all other plans have failed.
President Wilson is having investi-
gated the reports of outrages on un-
armed prisoners by General Villa 40
Jaurez Up to the present no confirms
tion has been received OF the reports
that Federal officers executed were
slain without even the semblance of a
trial. Should it develop that they wero
then the President win consider what
effect this win have on the continuar
tion Of negotiations with Carranza.
II was stated that Senator Catron OF
New Mexico is not in FL Paso and
Jaurez as a representative of the gov
eminent. If he is there il is in a pri-
vate capacity. No one has been au.
thorized to carry to Carranza or any
of his leaders any suggestion Of media
I tion to settle the Mexican question The
instructiones given to Dr. William 3a-
yard Hale under which he is operating,
were to get in touch with Carranzs,
/ learn what his plans were, how many
men he had in the field and just what he
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