The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28
Steamers Land COnsign- ments at Puerta Mexico. U. $. Battlers Offer
 No Resistance
ALTERNATIVE WOULD HAVE BEEN TO SEIZE
 PORT CUSTOM HOUSE
Action Would Have Violated Armistics With ediation Devel- opments Report Shows No Se-
 rious Obstacle Is En-
 .. countered

Washington. May -Ammuaition consisned to the Hucrta government In Mexico. which had been kept In the hold of the German steamship Npiranes since the American occnpntion of vera Crnx. was reported to have been land ed today at Puerta Mexico. Consul Can- sdn of Vera Cruz cabIed this informn- ton to the state department. H Nasf reported from other sources thnt arms consigned to Huertn had been landed at Pnertn Mexico from the German steamer Bavaria. Both steamers belong to the Hnmburg- American lines. United states officials made no effort
 to prevent the delivery of the ammuni- tion Puerta Mexico Is an open port
 and the United States has agreed to a suspension of hostillties during the Ma
 gara mediation. The state department
 made it plain that the only way for the United States to have prevented the de- l livery would have been to seize the GUS toms house at Puerta Mexico. as was done at Vera Cruz. This would have | violated the armstice
 Robert Lansing. counsellor of tho state | department made public the reports con | corning the delivery of the. ammunition, | Secretary Bryan being absent. When Mir. l Bryan returned to the department later
 In the day he was informed of the mes
 sa ges.
 What" he said evidencing some sur
 prize. Already landed the arms?' Reads Dispatch
 MT. Bryan then read the dispatches aud V .fa To, ,t,al ft Mediation developments at Niagara Falls were reported to President Wilson
 and assurances were reiterated that no
 serious obstacles had been encountered. 1 During the day John Lind and C. A.
 Douglas. an attorney representing me
 Mexican ronstitutionalIsts. called on Sec | retary Bryan to discuss negotiations which might lead to representation by 1 agents of General Carranza at the peace conference Mir. Bryan was engaged at | the time and another conference was ar l ranged for tomorrow. Other representa- l tives of the constitutionalists here stated | that no word had come from Carranza> l indicating any change in his determina- | ton not to participate in negotiations in- | volving the internal affairs Of Mexico. | Rulnors and reports that Huerta was making preparations to leave Mexico City | continued to reach Washington. One re- ! port said Huerta was trying to make arr | engagements to leave provided he could do SO with dignity.
 Late today Rear Admiral Howard, l commanding the American fleet in Mex Iican Pacific waters. reported that con- Istitutionalist forces in southwestern Mexican states were threatening Acapulco"
 Surprise Manifested
 l Considerable surprise was manifested here when 1t became known that coll |stitutionalists had interrupted railroad and telegraphic communication between Mexico City and Guadalajara for sew eral hours Tuesday. Il was pointed out that mineral resources in the vicinity l of Guadalajara were alluring induce- ments to the constitutionalists.
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