The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-09-06
QUIET IN MEXICO.
NO IMPORTANT TIDINGS RE-
CEIVED FROM MEXICO.
Officials COnvcrsant with Affairs Be-
low the Border Say Waiting Game
Sure to Bear Good Fruit.

Washington, Sept. 1.-Secretary
Bryan remained at the state depart
hlent today for news from Mexico
until a few minutes before his train
left for the Maryland shore, where
he lectured tonight. AS he hastened
to the train he declared nothing had
been received except messages relat-
ing to the movements of Amrican
citizens in the southern republic.
Earlier in the day the secretary
had conferred with Senator Bacon.
chairman OF the foreign relations
committee. and both stated that no
further suggestions had been made by
John Lind. special envoy to the
Huerta government, and that no over
lures from the Mexican side had been
made.
Reports from Torreon that six
Americans had been killed received
no verifiCation in state department
advices but bulletin was forwarded
to the department from the American
consul general at Monterey stating
that five Americans who left Torreon
last Monday had been accounted for,
three of them reaching Monterey Sat
urday night and two remaining at
Eeata to dispose of their horses.
According to state department ad~
vices the Americans who reached
Monterey reported that they were we'll
treated by all Mexicans with whom
they came in contact. They said the
federals still held Torreon while the
'revOlutiOnists controlled Gomez, Pa
lacio and Lerdo.
The care Of American refugees from
Mexico was the subject Of routine
messages between the department and
American officials in Mexico and along
the border. Red Cross authorities at
New Orleans were notified during the
day that Americans from Mexico ar
riving at that port in need of assis-
homes in this country. Owing TO sew
|erai misunderstanding with regard
to the disposition Of needy cases after
Americans had reached the United
States, the department sent further
advices to officials at coast and bOr-
der towns to see to it that all who
needed aid were sent to their homes.
Secretary Bryan had been in COM
municatiOn before his departure with
President Wilson at Cornish, n. H.,
but said he did not know whether the
president would return to Washing
ton tomorrow. 1t was the general in
preston that President Wilson would
not hasten back unless there were in
dications of some immediate deve!-
opment in the present deadlock in the
negotiations between this government
and the Huerta regime.
An official conversant with Mex
ican affairs stated tonight that the
waiting attitude of the United States
was a correct one and that it would
be sure to force important develop
ments before many days. despite in-
timations in the last note of SenOr
Gamboa that the next move would
be expected from Washington.
1t was said tonight that John Lind,
the American special envoy in Mex
leo, would remain in Vera Cruz in
definitely and that he was not con-
templating any immediate move and
that he was only waiting for a change
in the situation which it was calcu-
lated would not be instigated by him
or by any move from Washington. AS
far as the United States is concerned,
/, was stated, the negotiations stand
Just where they did when President
Wilson addressed congress and ad-
Vised American citizens to leave Mex
leo. Senator Bacon said today thai
this advice was not given with any in
timatiOn that it might mean ultimate
intervention