Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-13
HUERTA GETS
ULTImATUM
FROM u. S.
MUST DISSOLVE RECENTLY ELECTED
CONGRESS OR DIPLOMATIC RE-
LATIONS WITH U. S. WILL CEASE.
-=hUER1A WANTS TO ARGUE THE
QUESTION, But LIND LEAVES.
GERMAN MINISTER
TAKES HAND IN GAME

| Mexico City Mev.. Nov. 13.--Re
ports that General Huerta had fled
from the federal capital were revived
| this afternoon owing to the inability
of those interested in his actions to
| find any definite trace of him.
Rumors that General Huerta was
planning to take a German steamer
for Europe have been current here
for several days. These, however, had
not been credited.
Owing to the fact that the provis-
ional president is not accustomed to
observe any routine, it is still re-
garded as probable that he may re-
appear in his usual haunts in due
time.
At noon the American Charge de-
Affaires. Nelson Shaughnessy, re-
ported that there had been no new
developments in connection with the
demands made by the United States
government in regard to the Mexican
congress.
Mexico City, Mex, Nov, 13.-Provis-
ional President Huerta showed no
signs of weakening this morning and
the American embassy was in a state
of suspense not knowing what to ex-
pect next
An early caller on Nelson O'Shaugh-
messy, the American charge d'affaires,
was the German minister to Mexico,
Admiral Paul Won Hintze. who arriv-
ed before Mr.. O'Shaughnessy had
breakfasted.
1t developed todast in the course of
the preliminary exchange of views
between John Lind, and personal rep
resentative of President Wilson, and
the Mexican officials on the question
oil dissolution of the new Mexican
congress, General Huerta advanced
the plea that he could not dissolve it
because it had been legally elected.
Mr. Lind's reply to this was the pre-
of demands made by the
United States government. accom-
panied by the declaration that what
General Huerta had been able to do
with the former congress he must do
with this one of his own creation.
An official notification was publish
ed here today under yesterdays date
those Mexican senators and
deputies who were elected on October
2G to assemble during the afternoon OF
November Is in their re-
spective houses in order to effect their
When John Lind early yesterday |
sent notification to Huerta that the |
United States government would have !
no further parley with the Mexican /
government unless the provisional
president replied to the American de- |
mands by 6 o'clock last evening. he !
also indicated that the, Mexican gov
srnment must inform the members of |
the diplomatic corps of its action in
respect to the congress by midnight.
Mr.. Lind left Mexico City last night
and is now in Vera Cruz. Nelson
0'Shaughnessy. charge d'affaires, of
he United States legation, awaits in
,tructions from Washington. 1t is
believed that Washington
will instruct Mr.. O'Shaughnessy to
lose the embassy or to turn it over
o the legation offices of some friendly
,ower.
Speculation as to the future, how
,ver. is tempered by some doubt as
O the state of affairs at the national
,alace.
Representations were made late I,
afternoon to both John Lind
nd Nelson OShaughnessy that in re-
lity, Provisional President Huerta
lad not been apprised of the demands
rom Washington. This appeared to 4
e substantiated by statements made
t the government offices early today.
1t was declared that Adolfo de la
anna, Mexican minister of finance,
ad engaged in the search for Huerta
nd up to late hour had not succeed
d in finding him either at the nation
l palace, at his family home or at any
i the places where he was accustom- I
d to go.
Early in the evening many persons
ere had regarded this absence as I
use on the part of General Huerta to I
void the receipt of the notification
rom the United States, but there I
GEMS to be reason to believe that his /;
ountry and the United States arrived
t the point of rupture in their rela-
ions without the knowledge Of the
Provisional President of Mexico.
lose friends and political associates
I General Huerta appeared earnest
S late as midnight in their assertions
hat they could not find him.
It was suggested at headquarters
hat the provisional president had run
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