The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-09
.HUERTA'S ENv0YS START NORTH FOR
 NIAGARA FALLS. Mediators Now Assured that Negotiations Will
 Not Halt. Washington to Take No Ac- tion Regarding Land
 ing of Arms.

Washington, May 9--With the de- 'parture of Huerta's mediation mission from Mexico City today. the South American envoys and government off, cials were. assureA there would be no hftrA in the Niagara. Falls negotiations through tardiness of the Mexican dele- gatiops.
 way of Vera Cruz and Key WAst, should arrive in ample time for the beginning of the mediation prelim1n- aries. May 19.
 News that the Mexican mediators were on their way was expected to ex- fcan mission but this may not be until after the return of President Wilson from memorial services to the Ameri- can victims of the occupation of Vera Cruz at the Brooklyn navy yard 16xt Monday. stS s
 While interest was renewed today in tho diplomatic phase of the Mexi-- can crisis there was sno yabatement- of preparations in the war and navy departments. Secretary Garrison ex- piained that he was trying to gather transports at Galveston ssin case 1t is thought wise in view of a precaution-. ary attitude to have them there. s
 WOULD EXTEND LENES.
 High officers of the army who have
 
 reported to have urged that the Amer ican lines there be extended to insure a sufficient food and water supply. Other uses for endorsements would be preparedness against any possibfI- fty .of sudden attack by federals and readiness for a quick movement on Mexico City should the Huerta regime crumb1e and mob violence threaten.
 The South American envoys trans r1itted to Huerta today the reply of the American government to his pro- test that the United States had broken the truce by landing additional troops at Vera Cruz. Secretary Bryan de- clared that no aggressive steps had been taken by the United States forces and that nothing had been done to violate the armistice.
 While the diplomatic and military phases bf- the international drama compelled much attention, observers Carranza strife. Constitutionalists ex- pressed confidence that their troops would drive the federals out of Tampi- co in the next three or four days. That development, it was hoped in some uslarters would relieve tension over the menace to foreign property in the Tarnpico oil district. Reports that San Luis Potosi had been taken by rebels were not credited by Earranza's Juarez agents.
 .- 4 --s
 COAL MINES REOPENED.
 F'ragmentary reports from the northern section of Mexico indicated the constitutionalist administration was moving for the resumption of in- dustry One of Carranza's first of fetal acts upon reaching Torreon. his new temporary camp, was to order the re-opening of coal mines in the district of Coahuila..
 The f111rr1y caused by the report t71 1s3t two steamers apearing arms and am intuition for Huerta were on their way to Puerto Mexico was auieted by the announcements that no action would be taken by the Washington government to prevent discharge of the cargoes.
 Cab1egram from Rear Admiral Bad ger early today stated that one of the ships, the Kronprinzessin Ceei1ie, had arrived at Puerto Mexico Friday. Whether she had un1oaded her cargo was not stated