The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-06-04
WAR HAPPENISGSM


FRIDAY. MAY -
Aogales Ariz. May - Thirty-hye
Federal officers captured BY The Con
stitutionalsts al The City OF Tcpic
were executed May a. according 70 a
message received here today from Gen.
A8ro Obregon, the Constitutionalist
commander. News from Washington
states that General Carranza assured
the British ambassador here that for
eleners in Mexico will be subjected to
no unjust or inequitable burdens
This was occasioned by inquiries, par
tieularly as to the Tampieo oil fields
and was regarded generally as very
satisfactory Urgent recommended
ti5ns that Americans should not yet
return 10 Tampico were transmitted
10 the navy department by Rear Ad-
miraI Mayo through Rear Admiral
Badger
SATURDAY. MAY -
Consideration OF an agreement b.
tween the Huerta government and the
United States was temporarily inter
ruptcd at Niagara Falls when Juan F.
Gfquidi, a representative OF cen Car
RAMA, laid before the South Amer
can ENJOYS a note expressing sur
prise that the mediation negotiations
were continuing with the Consttu-
uonalists unrcpresentcd.. After
long debate the mediators decided MOI
to permit Urquidi to present the com
munication from his chief. Then
after a conference with the American
delegates the mediators admitted the
/ Carranza emissary Urquid remain
ed with the mediators only a few min
utes. He left the note and expressed
the appreciation of his Supporters that
so active an interest had been taken
/ by the three diplomats in ayerting a
WI. Urquidi was asked not to dis
close the contents Of the note.
SUNDAY, MAY 81
a crisis in the progress of the
mediation proceedings was reached
las night While awaiting answers
from the Huerta government and the
United States to the tentative plan
! for a new provisional government in
Mexico, the question of admitting the
constitutionalists into the conference
before an agreement or protocol is
signed doomed up as likely TO influ-
ence the decision of the American
government on the plans already out
lined. The mediators later called in
the Mexican delegates to learn if Gen.
Huerta had approached the main
points of the peace plan. The MeXi.
cans said they had received no reply.
MONDAY, JUNE
President Wilson and Secretary Bry-
an held a brief conference and it is
understood communications bearing
on the late developments at Niagara
Falls were forwarded to Commission
ers Lamar and Lehman. The fol-
loving message has been received by
wireless:-The water famine which
the Constitutonalists besieging Maza-
tlan have been seeking to precipitate
in that city, is in full swing. Tonight
the electric light plant shut down from
lacb of water. adding materially to the
dIscomforts and dangers of the selBe.
/ The advantage to the Constitutional
lists of the resultant darkness was
shown almost Immediately by the cut
/ ting out of three barges loaded with
provisions which were destined for
the starving Federals and the power
/ launch which was towing them. Re
! liable reports today from GuadalaJara
were that all Federal troops there eX-
copt a fatigue garrison of $50 men
have been withdrawn to Mexico City.
Barbed wire entanglements have been
run around the city. A RED Cross
hospital ship is badly needed on the
west coast.
TUESDAY, JUNE
american uelegdleS 10 INT mean an
mediation conference at Niagara Falls
were in frequent communication yes
tcrday with the Washington govern
ment. 1t was declared in official quar-
tiers that the burden of the inter-com-
munication related to the hitch in the
progress of negotiations which has
arisen since the note was sent last
week to the South American mediators
outlining the position of the Mexican
C1nstitutionalists A semi-ofiicial
statement from General Carranza's
headquarters at Durango criticizing
the actions of the A. b. c. mediators
at Niagara Falls and an announcement
from Gen. Villa roterating his allie
glance as a military leader 10 General
Ca,ranza, were the developments yes
terday of the Mexican situation at Ell
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