The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-13
HUERTA'S REGIME
IN MEXICO WILL
SOON END
Sub Secretary Says Dictator
VIII Leave the Country
CARBAJAL MAY SUCCEED
And In Turn Is Likely to Give Way
10 a Man Acceptable to the
CARBAJAL MAY SUCCEED
And In Turn Is Likely to Give Way
to a Man Acceptable to the
Constltutionalists

Vera Cruz, July 13.-To save his
country from the horrors of civil war
and his capital from capture and,
perhaps, sack by victorious army,
Gen. Huerta intends to resign the
provisional presidency and leave
Mexico. This statement was made
here yesterday by Roberto Esteva-
Ruiz, Mexican subsecretary of foe-
eign affairs, who arrived from Mex
leo City on his way to Europe Huer-
ia, he said, will surrender the govern
ment to Francisco Carbajal, the new
minister of foreign affairs who, in
turn, will step aside when the time
comes, for some other provisional
president wholly acceptable 10 the
constitutionalists.
Just when the change will come
Esteva Ruiz said he did not know.
THE president did not make me his
confidente," he declared, nor did |
have much time to talk with him after
il was determined that ! should
leave the cabinet" He was convinc-
ed, however. that Huerta would lay
down his power during the coming
week and it would not surprise him.
he said, if his resignation were
announced today.
Carbajal, he added. was suggested
as provisional president by the
American delegation at the Niagara
Falls mediation conference and
agreed to by Huerta's delegates and
the South American mediators, while
the constitutionalists indirectly had
conveyed the idea that he would be
acceptable to CarranZa. When the
suggestion was first made. Villa had
not indicated his willingness to ac
cept Carbajal. Esteva-Ruiz went on
and he doubted Villas willingness &c
accept him now. AS for Zapata, he
had no idea that the southern lead
er would recognize any provisional
presidency until demands for the re
distribution of lands had been com
piled with. and he intimated that oh
jections to such a solution of Mexi
cos problems might come from Ger.
tain parts of the northern states.
Esteva-Ruiz is convinced that un
less something occurs to disarrange
the present plan, fighting between
federals and constitutionalists Is
over. This, he said, was indicated
by, the evacuation of Quadalajara
Like Porforio Diaz who fed from his
country in the hope that his flight
might avoid long and costly civil
war, Huerta according to Esteva.
Ruiz, has decided to yield to superior
numbers. Both Huerta and Gen Blan
quet, his minister of war, knew that
longer resistance was futile and
would mean nothing more than the
slaughter of thousands and perhaps
The sacking of the capital itself witt
perhaps horrors perpetrated by a vic
torious army joined by mad mos
from the Slums of the city. He ex-
pected that Banquet would leave
Mexico City perhaps when Huerta
fed, but not before. Enrique Gorros.
tieta, minister of justice. had offered
his resignation, so he had heard, but
he was not sure that the report was
true. The new members of the cabi.
net lately appointed. he went on,
were supposed to be those chosen by
Carbajal with the idea that they were
men to whom the constitutionalists
would not object so seriously, at
least. as to interfere with the preli-
minary work which Carbajal had un-
dertaken in finding someone to take
his place as president adinterim.