Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-13
CARRANzA IS
ASKING ONLY
ARMS
CONSTITUTIONALIST LEADER DOES
NOT WANT MEDIATION, But SAYS
IF EMBARGO ON AMMUNITION
IS LIFTED He WILL DO THE REST
IN SHORT ORDER.
HALE DELIVERS NOTE
FROM U. S. GOVERNMENT

Nogales, Sonora. Nov. 13.-Genera
Carranza, head of the Mexican con
stitutionalists said today he would no.
accept mediation in any form by the
United States or any other fo"eigl
government. He reiterated previous
statements that the constitutionalists
desired only the right to import arms
and ammunition from the United
States.
t General CarranZa again declined 70
discuss the subject matter of the colt
! ference between William Bayard Hale.
President Wilson's agent, and himself
yesterday. but he reiterated previous
statements that once permitted to i'm.
port arms without restrictions, the
| constitutiOnalists could guarantee
safety of foreigners in Mexico and the
establishment of stable government in
short time. lnterrogated with ref
eIence to the suggestion that the
consttutionalists might get into COM
lnuncation with Mexico City, through
Mr. Hale at this point and John Lind
at Vera Cruz and thus possibly obtain
the election of provisional president
acceptable to all factions in Mexico,
the rebel leader declared fatty that
he would have no intercourse with
Huerta.
Carranza was an ardent supporter
of President Madero. AS Governor of
C0ahuila, he was the first to repud-
ate Huerta, and his declaration today
was in line with former statements
that he would have nothing whatever
to do with the Huerta government. ---sy
With President Wilson in posses
sion today of the answer to the propo-
sition presented yesterday by the
American government, through Will
lam Bayard Hale, General Venustiano
Carranza, the patriarchial leader of
the constitutionalist revolt against
Huerta, awaited today reply from
Washington. The proposition present
ed by Hale is understood to have been
that the United States would open the
border for the constitutionalists to
obtain arms if Carranza could guaran-
tee establishment of order within
reasonable time, and the foundation of
real representative government in the
southern republic. This would carry
with it the certainty of the elimina-
tion of Huerta without the necessity
of armed Intervention by the United
States.
Constitutionalsts generally express
ed great pleasure today at the atten-
tion bestowed upon them by the
American government in sending Mr..
Hale as an unofficial representative of
the Washington administration. It was |
deemed an auspicious augury--a def |
mite sign of success for the constitu
tionalists, and as they put it, pre-
diction of the redemption of Mexico. |
Yet the possibility of Intervention by
assembled forces by the United
States, the developments at Mexico
City last night, and the possibility
that Huerta might precpitate matters
by some desperate act, worried them.
To Carranza all turned today for
advice and counsel. He is the eldest,
as well as the first chief of the con-
Although the entire constitutional
st cabinet was present at the meet
ing all the talking was done by Hale
and Carranza, and that was not much
A silent man, the constitutionalist
chief received the Americans propo-
sal and studied it more than quarter
Of an hour before he voiced his brief
answer.
Arizona Interested.
Phoenix, Ariz,, Nov. 13.---Accom-
panied by Governor Hunt, Representa-
i've Hayden and Adiutant General
Harris, of Arizona, Vice President
Marshall left here today for the SAGA
on Indian reservation to meet Gen
eral H. L. Scott, commanding the Unit
I'd States troops on the Mexican
border.
According to a member of the party
he Mexican situation will be discuss
I'd.
England Backs U. S.
London, Nov. 13.-The British gov
,rnment is being kept informed of
,very move made by the United s
States government in regard to Mexi- {
%, both through the British embassy
It Washington and through Walter Fl.
Page the United States ambassador
lere.
Ambassador Page received another
ong message from the state depart
nent at Washington today and imme' c
lately paid visit to Sir Edward a
Trey, the British foreign secretary. I
rhey remained in conference for some {
ime. These visits and the cable s
,rams from Washington are believed
o be the result of an understanding
between Great Britain and the United