The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-04
State Department Advises That
Industrial Operations BE
Not Resumed There.
REBEL AREA ALSO UNSAFE
Gen. Bliss Reports on Steps to
Protect Refngees-Inves-
tigatiOn Continues.

similar operations suspended by the war
in that country was issued at the State
Department to-day.
The Department gives notice that there
has been no Improvement in conditions in
Mexico such as to warrant Americans at
tempting to resume their industrial OPP
erations there.
The following statement was made
public:
Reports have come to the Department
OF State from various quarters of the ex-
istence upon the part of numerous Amer
leans who left Mexico last August of a
disposition to return to that country with
view to resume industrial operations in
the belief that prospective conditions JUS
tfy such action.
ut will be recalled that relief work
was carried out on very broad scale
during the past summer In removing
Americans from the zones of danger in
Mexico.
The Information in the possession OF
the Department of State Indicates that
political and economic conditions have
not changed in such way to Justify
an attempt TO return TO Mexico and re-
sumo industrial operations there and that
any purpose to take such a step is due
to misunderstanding or misrepresenta-
tions as to actual conditions and pros
poets at the present moment"
ConstitutiOnnlists' Territory.
II has been indicated that many Amer.
leans have been led to believe that in the
territory controlled by the Contitutional-
lists approximately normal conditions
have been restored.
The statement isued at the Department
reveals a belief on the part of officials
m M IissS a.,
ceeded in establishing the kind of gov
eminent and order necessary for sue
cessful conduct of private business or en-
terprse.
II is considered here that the Depart
ment's information is superior to any re
ceived through private sources, hecaus
the entire country is covered by tn
United States Consuls, who send in FIRE
Quent reports on business and politica
conditions
The Departments statement refers I
the period jus, after President Wiso
Issued his warnings to Americans to leav
Mexico. II is understood that the Admin
istration does not desire Americans L
return in considerable number at thi
time lest the work done last summc
be made necessary all over again.
No information regarding the confer
ence between the President and John Lin
on the cruiser Chester last night ha
been received here. The State Department
neither was consulted nor Informed re-
Earding the conference.
There is some reason to believe II state
ments made in reliable quarters are I
be believed that the principal reaso
for the conference was the desire 9
John Lind to convey directly To the Pres
dent certain ideas which have been form
ing in his mind during his long exil
In Mexico.
Lind's Views Changed.
1t is said that Lind now entertain
views regarding the Mexican sltuatio
quite different from those he took dow
with him and feels very strongly on III
subject. Lind's experiences in Mexico t.
gether with his study of the situation
are said to have convinced him that tn
United States should take more positiv
action and not confne itself to watch
full waiting" for the fall of Preside,
Huerta
President Wilson's special agent is re
ported to have become more Of the min
of practically all Americans and othe
foreigners in Mexico regarding the polio
Of the United States. From the brevit
Of his conference with the President an
the lack Of any important announcement
from the latter after the conference II
assumed here that II Mr.. Lind venture
to make any suggestions of Il change the
were not accepted by the President.
The apparent lack of results from tn
conference has served to remind Wash
inGton of another notable conferenc
which President Wilson had last sunme
with a man who was supposed by virtu
Of his long residence in Mexico and eN
perience in dealing with the Mexica
Government TO have special informatio
on the subject This was the conferenc
with Henry Lane Wilson.
similarity In Statements.
A similarity between the President
statements to the press following thes
two conferences was noted with interes
here to-day After his talk with tn
former Ambassador the President sal
with unmistakable emphasis that his cor
ference with the diplomat neither ha
changed his analysis Of the Mexican situt
ton nor altered his view as to whs
should be done,
He told the newspaper correspondent
to-day practically the same thing, thong
1t is presumed his words were without
certain acrimony which marked thos
following his talk with Henry L. Wilson
In other words. IL is the opinion heI
that the President has his own ideas o
Mexico and il not particularly interests
in what any one else has to say about IT,
AS IA result Of the inquiries made
Secretary Garrison with reference
whether or not Mexican soldiers WEI
being forced back across the border witt
out their arms Gen. Bliss to-day 70
warded report defending the militai
authorities from the insinuations that the
were guilty of inhuman treatment of Il
federals
The general said that the officers we
governed In all cases BY the dictates
humanity and the circumstances.
telegraphed to the Secretary from Ss
Antonio as follows:
$50 far as is known at these hea
quarters what has been done at Presidi
rex, is in accord with unbroken practi
from the beginning all along the horde
Any one seeking refuge or claiming as
lum is received and protected.
Frequently armed parties of eth
Federals or rebels cross the border wit
out evident intent to surrender or Sc,
asylum. II not found by our patrols TIT
cross back AT convenient time and pac
Their international status Is that
AIMED invaders of United States territor
The Method Puraued.
"lf caught by our patrols they are di
armed and either held or put back aero
the river. according to the circumstanc
of THE case. Under no circumstances a
they obliged to return when they can
taken by their enemies.
"Federals are sent over to the col
mand from which they came, and I