Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-06-26
MAY SAVE MEXICO
FROM CIVIL STRIFE
REBELS AND HUERTA DELE
GATES TO CONFER INFORMAL
LY AT NIAGARA FALLS.
PLAN LIKELY TO SUCCEED
Almost Sure Armistice Will Be De-
cIared Until Final Agreement Is
Reached-Hopes of Mediators
Are Buoyed as Result.

Niagara Falls, Ont, June "a
Through the invitation of the United
States government and the good off.
ces of the three South American me-
diators, Representatives of the two
warning factions in Mexico, the Con.
stitutionalists and the Huerta govern.
ment, soon will be brought face to
face in an informal conference, dis.
tinct from the mediation proceedings.
May End Civil Strife.
To save Mexico from further spolia.
tion and the possibility of foreign
war, the Constitutionalists apparently
have been prevailed upon to meet
their countrymen, 1.-THE Huerta dele.
gates,' in a peace conference whose
object shatl be the ending of the civil
strife which has divided Mexico In
the last eighteen months. The belief
is great that this plan stands a good
chance of being carried to success if
the recent differences between Gener.
ais Villa and Carranza are sufficient.
ly composed to guarantee that the
Constitutionalist delegates can work
without embarrassment
Arrangements for the meeting are
as yet in formative state. Final
word in detail has not come from Gen.
eral Carranza, but it was the expecta.
ton last night of the mediators, Am.
erican and Huerta delegates, that to.
day or Wednesday at the latest, they
will be not only able to announce the
personnel of the Constitutionalist del.
egation, but the place of meeting and
its general purposes.
Hopes Are Buoyed.
The new plan has buoyed the hopes
Of the principals to mediation. The
South American ENJOYS discussed it
briefly with the American delegates
yesterday and later had a conference
with the Huerta delegates who were
formally asked if they would meet
Constituencies representatives. The
Huerta delegates replied they were
willing to enter any conference with
their countrymen which had for it's
object the prevention of bloodshed and
the destruction of property and sought
to establish a national government On
q firm basis.
The conversation between the medi-
ators and the Huerta delegates then
turned to such international questions
as could be advanced in the absence
| of ConstitutiOnalists, particularly the
conditions under which American
forces will be withdrawn from Vera
Cruz, which is expected to result from
the satisfactory establishment of
new provisional government. The plan
which the mediators have worked out
is to confine the formal mediation con-
ferences to a consideration of inter-
national questions, treating with the
Huerta and American delegates on
these points. On internal questions
the Huerta and Constitutionalist dele
gates would be expected to confer
alone.
Armistice Very Likely.
1t is practically ceAain that an
armistice will be declared by the Con-
stitutionalists until an agreement of a
definite character is reached in the in
LII liAetA SoiIACI 0uCo0 dS W the establish
ment of the provisional government.
On arriving at such an understanding
it would be expected that a general
suspension of hostilities and guaranty
OF amnesty would be proclaimed and
the Constitutionalist delegates then
might be formally admitted to the
mediation proceedings for the signing
of the final protocol recording the solu.
ton of the differences between Mex,
leo and the United States.