The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-15
Believed Huerta. Blanunos and Other High Officials Will Leave the Cap
 ital Today
DIPLOMATS STILL
 HOPE TO AVOID < MORE BLOODSHED
Trying to Effect Transfer of Power Before Rebel Forces Take Mex ico City - Huerta May Flee From the
 Country

MeAlc0 1lty~s. July iA.--M lu o'clock tonight the faJniIS of President Huerta and other relatives and closs friends left the capital for Vera Cruz aboard special train. The train was composed of three sleepers and baggage car. Running ahead of it were two military trains carrying soc men. Following came another mil itary train with 800 troops aboard.
 The family of General Blanquet, minister of war, also left on the spe- cial.
 It is believed that President Hue4Aa, General Blanquet and other high off \ cials will leave the capital tomorrow morning.
 The party boarded the train at Villa De Guadalupe, railroad sta ton five miles from Mexico City. Only a few persons were aware of their departure.
 wa,ssrlxaos. Judy s..---4lsaaags Wnshiagtoa confidently expects inc resignation or General Huertn at any moment, the Mexican constitutionaIists, unaffected by the news. are pressing leo City.
 official dispatches today revealed that General villa. with f5.00o men, was ready for rapid advance on the Mexican capital and that General ob- regon's forces at Guadalajara were prepared to sweep onward within q few days. Officials here firmly believe the consttutionallsts will be in Mexico city in two or three weeks regardless of what the fluerta government may do.
 Diplomats are working hard to pre- vent fighting in the capital and still hope the transfer Of power may be affected without further bloodshed General I1uerta's resignation. 1t Is real ized, would not compose the situation l immediately but 1t would mako possI- ble parleys with the eonstitutionalists through which a change could be ac- oomplished peacefully.
 May Mean Flight Numerous official advioes saying Huerta would resign in day or two have raised the expectations of official Washington that his exit from power also would mean his flight from the country. some constitutionalists here think he will 80 by way of salIna cruz q Pacific coast town Others. among them Fernando 1glesias calderon. are l n .i cate. They declared the departure of his family means only that he Is pre- lparng for desperate measures, such as a big rally of federal forces which he himself would command. Rafael Hubaran, CafTanza's confiden- tial agent here, has received instruc- tions on which to draft d formal reply to the mediators' note proposing in l formal conferences between constitu- tionalists and Huerta delegates Tho instructions, 1t .s understood, are to reject the invitation.
 Policy Attacked
 Another attack on the adminlstrs- l tions Mexican policy was made in the \ House today by Representative Mondell of Wyoming. He denounced particu- larly the Ma gara Falls mediation nego. tiations Discussing the provision of the protocol negotiated at Niagara Falls, which valves, on the part of the United States, all claims for war in demnity. MT. Mondell said:
 What an abJect surrender on the part of the administration from it's stiff-necked demand for salute of 2l ] guns and an abject apology. Is this lagreement to demand no satisfaction or Indemnity whatever for incidents on Iaccount of which the administration rushed a mighty fleet over the seas. sacrificed American lives, and now maintains huge fighting force amid the dangers and the discomforts of the tropics"