Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-13
HuERTA TO RESIGN
 AND LEAVE MEXICO
Will Surrender Government to carba- jail. Who in Turn Will Retire in Favor of Someone Acceptable to Constitutionalists.

Vera Cruz, July 12.@To save his country from the horrors of civil war and his capital from capture and per haps sack by a victorious army, Gen eral Huerta intends to resign the pro- visional presidency and leave Mexico. This statement was made today by Roberto Esteva-Ruiz, Mexican sub secretary of foreign affairs, who reach ed Vera Cruz from Mexico City on his way to Europe. Huerta, he said. will cisco Carbajal, the new minister of foreign affairs, who. in turn, will step aside when the time comes. for some other provisional president wholly ac- ceptab1e to the constitutionalists.
 Resignation MomentariIy Expected.
 Just when the change will come. Es- teva Ruiz said he did not know The president did not make me his conf dant." he declared, nor did I have much time to talk with him after it was determined that I should leave the cabinet" He was convinced, how ever, that Huerta would lay down his power during the coming week and it would not surprise him, he said, if his resignation were announced to- morrow.
 CarbaJal, he added. was suggested as provisional president by the Amert ican delegation at the Niagara Falls mediation conference and agreed to by Huerta's delegates and the South American mediators, while the consti- tutionalists indirectly had conveyed the idea that he would be acceptable to Carransa- That is,' explained the Mexican sub-secretary, Carbajal would be a more provisional president than the real provisional president to be named later'
 Doubtful of Villa Attitude. When the suggestion was first made, Villa had not indicated his willingness | to accept Carbajel, Esteva-Ruiz went on, and he doubted Villas willingness | to accept him now. As for Zapata leader would recognize any provisional presidency until demands for the re- | distribution of lands had been com piled with, and he intimated that ob- jecdons to such solution of Mex | ico's problems might come from cer- tain parts of the northern states.
 Esteva-Ruiz is convinced that un- 1 less something occurs to disarrange | the present plan, fighting between fed erals and constitutionalists is over ] This. he said. was indicated by the evacuation of Guadalajara.
 Know That Longer Resistance is Futile | Like Porf1rio Diaz. who fled iron ! his country in the hope that his going might avert a long and costly civi
 
 l has decided to yield to superior mum. I bers. Both Huerta and General Blan. quet, his minister of war, know tha | longer resistance is futile. and would mean nothing more than the slaughtel l of thousands and perhaps the sackinf of the capital itself. with perhaps hor. TOTS perpetrated by a victorious army ! joined by mad mobs from the clums O. the city.
 Blanquet to Leave With Huerta.
 He expected that Blanquet would leave Mexico City perhaps when Huer ta fled, but not before. Enrique Ger stieta, minister of justice had offerct his resignation. so he had heard bu he was not sure that the report wa true. He assumed, however, tha Gerostieta would resign, and all sn ole cabinet as we'll The new member of the cabinet lately appointed. h. went on, were supposed to be thos chosen by CaTbajal with the idea tha they were men to whom the constitu tiona1ists would not object so serious i ly, as least. as to interfere with tn preliminary work which Carbajal ha, undertaken of finding someone to talk his place as president ad interim.
 Minister of Finance to Visit Soul
 America.
 Like Adolfo de Ia Lama. the Mexi can minister of finance. who arrive |, nefe yesterday, also on his way to Flu rope, the sub-secretary of. foreign .lf fairs professed still to maintain hi connection with the government H had been named. he said, special am bassador to Argentina. Brazil and Chi to convey to those countries the thank of the Mexican republic for their ef forts toward mediation. With hl family he will sail from Vera Cruz O tho steamer Alfonso XIII for Spair and from that country, he declared, h would go on his mission to Sout . America
 Attempted Murder, Then Shielded.