The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-11
Warships Steaming at Full Speed to Vera Cruz Where Anti Foreign Demonstra- tions Have Been Directed Especially Against Amer icans.~
A. B. o. Mediators to Hold Final Peace Farley At New York Today and Will Present Plan For Bring ing Order Out of Chaotic Situation.

Washington, Aug. 11-On the eve of the reassenbling today of the Pan American conference which is seek ing to find a, way to restore peace to Mexico, the United States government last night ordered the battleships Louisiana and New Hampshire to Vera Cruz.
 This action was taken in response to urgent appeals from Commander McNamee of the gunboat Sacramento, the only American war vessel now at Vera Cruz. NfcNamee reported there had been repeated antt-American demonstrations in Vera Cruz; which threatened at any moment to grow into wholesale attacks on Americans and other foreigners in Carranza's seaport capital
 These demonstration are laid to an ger over the probab refusal of the United States and the six South or Central American governments repre-, sented in the conference today to rec ognize the First Chief of the Consti- tutionalists.
 1 Both battleships sailed from New port early last evening They are each of about Is knots speed and will need about five days to make the run to Vera. Cruz under forced draft EThe
 Louisiana. is the flagship of the fourth
 division Of the Atlantic Fleet. Both | Conference to Fix Details. The conference in New York today
 will be concerned with final details. of
 the first step in a plan the important
 features of which were unanim ously agreed upon last week by the Am
 bassa,dors from Brazil. Chili a.ndz Ar gentina and the Ministers from Bo-
 livia, Guatemala and Uruguay. and I Secretary I4ansings tss<y I First and for emosts the plan con
 templates a supreme appeal to the | consciences of the Mexican leaders of l all factions and political groups. It I already has been prepared, and, after minor changes in phraseology are dis I cussed tomorrow, probably will be dis J patched immediately. A reasonable Il time-a few weeks-wi1I be allowed .l for answers to be received. I The appeal, twill be brief, politely 5Ephrased and transmitted in Spanish T as originally written by one of the diz 8I pIomats. It will show clearly that the sljskveral governments whose ambassaS : fI 4d6rs and ministers, along with the sI Secretary Of state, sign it. have no . purpose to interfere in the strictly iinternal affairs of Mexico, to impair al her sovereignty or to show prefer lence for one leader as against another It will be eloquent petition that 4 the Mexican leaders participate in or q ference to be held on neutral ground lin Mexico for the purpose of creating la& provisional government which can Tbe accorded moral support and for
 nal recognition by all the American
 states.
 No Threat to Be Made. No threat or intimation of what E will be the course of the several
 American countries is given if the Isuggestions, made are declined, all 9,I consid erations being for the time sub. I ordinated to the final appeal to the 4 ,sEpatriotisrn of all Mexicans to redeem ees the prestige of the nation before the t4i world and show whether it's leaders ! seek personal aggrandizemenf or the n welfare of their country. < sThe complete plan adopted for the '5l solution of the problem has not ye' 2 been published, but the diplomats are :. confident that when fully and author | lilitatively disclosed it will be edimcul Fl for any. of the factionssto fund a jus y3l ground for declining to enter into the ? ispirit of cooperation and non-parti
 sanship of the suggestions made
 The conferees have taken into con
 sideration all the possibilities of tn, T situation. sss9
 FIf any ffaction Or group fails to at
 tend the peace conference. those lead l CTS or delegates who do will be ex
 pected to proceed with the task O ] getting up a government which cal |, be recognized.
 f Includes Embargo on Arms With this recognition an embarg
 on arms would be declared by tn g United States against all other con e tending groups. and such moral sup n port given to the new government a o would enable it.. through the rehabili k tation of it's finances, to equip a fore 7, large enough to crush armed opposi d. ton.
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