The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-12
BY ENFORCED ACTION OF THE U. S. IN SEEING ATLANTIC
 COAST LIGHTHOUSE.
AMERICAN CONSUL DETAINED
And Secretary Bryan Makes lmpera- tive Demand for His immediate Release-Mediators Are Still Work ing on the Matter, However.

Washington, May 11.-While peace negotiations marked time pending formal sittngs of the South Ameri- can mediators to begin Monday OH Canadian soil, the mediators and of, ficials of the state department here today were occupied with several se- rious phases of the Mexican situation demanding immediate attention.
 Secretary Bryan called at the Ar genuine legation late in the day and spent two hours in conference with the South American envoys discuss ing the continued detention of John k. Sillimau, American vice consul at Saltllo, by Mexican federals, the Lobos Island incident and the case oi the five South Americans under arrest at Vera Cruz for firing upon United States sailors and marines.
 MT Bryan insisted that the release of Silliman must be brought about at VAANNf " AAfh hoh'h AHOAA Aht hldlAti later he would not say what would happen if the vice consul were kept in prison but he was grayely em- phatic in announcing the govern ment's determination to have him freed.
 While the official representatives of Geueral Eiuerta were preparing to take leave of their revolution-torn country at Vera Cruz, while an Amer ican general with armed forces of the United States waited at one of the gateWays to Mexico City, the United States government officially announced it's representatives in mediation negotiations before the South American triumvrate at Mag ara Falls, Ontario, next Monday.
 Justice Joseph Fucker Lamar of the United States supreme court and Frederick w. Lehman. former solici- tor general. were chosen by Presi- dent Wilson as the American repre- sentatives. From lIuerta are hasten ing forward Augustin Rodriguez, Emilio Rabasa and Luis Elguero. Ambassador Da Cana of Brazil Min ister Naon of Argentina and Minister Suarez of Chile, the mediators, to- night expressed satisfaction in the selection of the advisers for both governments and little further is ex- pected in the preliminary peace nego- tiations until all have met in Canada.
 General Carranza and the Mexican rebels who seek IIuerta's overthrow will not be represented in the con ference, according to latest advices. They will continue to make war in Huertas territory while the truce in the international disputation pro- ceeds
 Disturbing elements continued to arouse interest throughout the day. General Funston at Vera Cruz was appealed to by the Brazilian minister at Mexico City to release some South Americans, including three Braziians who had been arrested and are awaiting trial for shipping Ameri- can soldiers from the refuge of tramp steamer in Vera Cruz harbor An appeal was made to Secretary Bryan by the mediating envoys on behalf of General Huerta because of reports that American forces had seized a Mexican lighthouse on Lobos Island off TampicO, an act which Huerta's agents maintained was az gressive and in violation of the armistice
 This government maintained that Huerta had violated the armistice in ordering lighthouses closed on the Pacific coast to the peril of shipping.
 Authorities here were provoked at belated reports that American Vice Consul Silliman was imprisoned by Huertas soldiers at Saltillo. From Tampico, where Mexican federals and constitutionalists have been prepar- ing for a sanguinary struggle, came rumblings of battle, while reports that Huerta's strength was waning in Mexico City and that the bandit leader Zapata was about to attack the capital from the south served to arouse diplomatic agents of foreign nations lest their people in Mexico City might be in immediate danger of persecution or dea.
 Late in the day Secretary Bryan hastened to the Argentine legation, where he consulted for half an hour with the mediators. None would dis cuss tine conference but it was