The border vidette., 1914-02-07
EMBARGO ON ARMS LIFTED.
United States Will Let Mexicans Fight
 to a Finish.

WHEREAS, by proclamation of the president. issued March f, 1912, under a joint resolution of congress, approved by the pre- sident on the same day, it was declared that there existed in Mexico conditions of domestic violence which were promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States, and,
 WHEREAS, by the joint resolu- tion above mentioned it there upon became unlaw awful to export arms and munitions of war to Mexico except under such limit ations and exceptions as the president should prescribe,
 Now, therefore, I Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, hereby declare and pro- claim that, as the conditions on which the proclamation of March 4, 1912, have essentially chang ed, and as it is desirable to place the United States, with reference to eXpOrtati tion of arms and mu- nitionS of war to Mexico, in the same position as other powers, said proclamation is hereby re- VOked.
 Washington, D. o., Feb. B. President Wilson, by executive order dated today and made public tonight, removed all re- strictions against the exporta- tion of munitions of war into Mexico from the United States: placing the contending elements on a basis of equality with re- Spect to the purchase of arms and supplies in this country.
 The executive order empha- sized it as the desire of the Unit ed States to be in the same posi- tion of neutrality toward the cOntending factions of Mexico as other powers. Accompany ing the order, the White House issued the following statement of explanations:
 'The executive order under which the expectations of arms and ammunition into Mexico is forbidden is a departure from the accepted practices of neu- trality and a deliberate depar- ture from those practices under the we'll ll-cOnsidered joint reSO- 1ution of congress and deter mined upon circumstances which have now ceased to exist. It was intended to discourage in cipient revolts against the re- gularly constituted authorities of Mexico.
 Since the order was issued the circumstances of the case have undergone a radical change. There is now no constitutional government in Mexico and the existence of this order flinders and delays everything that the government of the United States is now insisting upon, namely: That Mexico be left free to set tie her own affairs as soon as possible and put them under constitutional footing by their OWL force and counsel. The order, therefore, was rescinded." CARRANZA IS MUCH PLEASED.
 Culiacan, Sinaloa, Feb. B. General Carranza and constitu- were 0ld over the report of the lifting of the embargo on munitions of war shipped from the United States to Mexico. The receipt of the news was the signal for a demonstration.
 Along the frontier the impress sion is that the action of the Washington government was in DO way the result of compro- mise with the revolutionary party in Mexico and that it has been accomplished only through natulal effort at Washington.
 It was said that Gen. Carranza has had no direct dealings with the Wilson administration since the breaking off of negotiations two months ago at Nogales through William Bayard Hale. Since then it is understood Car ranza has assumed a waiting policy and has made absolutely no attempt toward the renewal of negotiations.