The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-02-17
MANY WITHDRAW
FOREIGN DIPLOMATS MAY LEAVE
MEXICO CITY.
Relations With General Carranza
Have Become Tense-Cables Home
for Instructions.

for Instructions.
So serious is the fr: :ction between
the Carranza government and mem
bers of the diplomatic corps in the
City of Mexico that the withdrawal
Of many foreign legations is now
threatened.
Some of the prominent diplomatic
representatives Of European countries
already have cabled their nome gov
ernments suggesting that, incsmuch
as communication is growing more
and more restricted and little respect
is given them by the Carranza au-
thorities, it might be advisable to
unite with other governments in a
movement to abandon all foreign le-
cations in Mexico.
State department officials Friday
night declined to discuss this phase
of the situation. AS the American
embassy has been closed since the
rupture with the Huerta government,
the action on the part Of the other
diplomatic missions is being consid-
cred without consulting the United
States, SO far as is known.
The plan of the diplomatic corps
in the City of Mexico, which is un-
derstood to be acting as a unit, is to
leave affairs in Mexico in charge of
consular officers. This will mean
practically the severance of diplo-
matte relations by all countries and
present unique status for Mexico in
the family of nations.
The situation in the Mexican capi-
tai has been replete with diplomatic
embarrassments since the rapid
changes in executive authority en-
sued.
When Gen. CarranZa, in his capac-
ity as first chief Of the Constitution
alist army, first abandoned the City
of Mexico and moved his capital to
Vera Cruz, he invited the diplomatic
corps to accompany him. The diplo-
mats formally declined on the ground
that such step might be construed as
recognition of his government.
Since then the relations between
Carranza and the foreign diplomats
in the City of Mexico have not been
cordial.
The return of the Carranza author
ity to the City of Mexico, where Gen.
Obregon is in command, has now de-
veloped into menacing situation,
because the latter has threatened, by
direction CT CarranZa, to deport the
Spanish minister unless Angel del
Case, who claims to be confidential
agent Of the Spanish government, is
surrendered from his hiding place in
the Spanish legation. He is accused
of completely in the Villa govern
ment.
With the strict censorship on press
dispatches, the most rigorous known
in Mexico in years, and the difficulties
of foreign diplomats in communicat-
ing with their home governments,
the situation has caused much anx-
iety among officials and diplomats al
Washington. -
Some of the embassies at Washing
ton tried a few days ago to communi-
cate with their missions in the City
Of Mexico and had the cipher mes
sages returned to them, the Mexican
telegraph officials refusing to receive
them. Since then there has been g
modification of the embargo on code
messages, but diplomats declare the
uncertainties of communication have
not been removed.
So far as is known from Official
kilograms, the City of Mexico is quiet
Comparatively little news Of military
activity in the southern republic
reached the state department Friday.
No reply had been received to the
telegram sent by Acting Secretary
Lansing to the Brazilian minister tc
exercicc his good Offices in behalf o.
Angel del Case, and officials admit
ted they had only meager informa-
ton about the situation.