Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1915-01-21
MOVEMENT
FOR PEACE
in MEXICO
Carranza and Villa Leaders
Agree Upon a Plan to Elm
mate the Two Generals.

Ell PASO, Texas, Jan. 20.-Tht
is proposed by new movement il
Mexico This was learned tonight il
most authentic reports from the inte
rior.
The movement is headed by Genera
Obregon, CarranZa'S military chief;
and General Gutierrez, the national
conventiCn's provisional president
who recently fled from the capital.
They have agreed with several OF
the Carranza and Villa leaders, it is
reported, to organize an Independent
movement to establish lasting peace.
This agreement, it was said, dates
back to the early part of the present
month.
A statement attributed to General
Gutierrez, while in power at the Mex
lean capital and given to person in
close acquaintance with his policy, was
quoted here tonight as follows:
81 will use all my power in last
effort to restore peace in Mexico, and
to that end will insist upon the
elimination of both Carranza and Villa.
If my life is spared, l believe that
the effort will be successful
Several prominent Villa officials
have been put in Jail or met execution
as result of the new movement, it
was reported here. Luis Benavides,
General Villas private secretary and
confidential adviser, it is said, is in Jail
at Mexico City by order of the Villa
officers.
The troops which left Mexico City
with Gutierrez have formed a junction
with Obregon's column and are~prepar-
ing to enter the capital, according to
apparently reliable reports. Villa re-
mained today at Aguas Calientes, north
Of the capital, whence he returned
after visiting the capital last Sunday.
Americans from the interior are arriv-
ing here daily, having left in fear,
they say, of the confused conditions
WANTS MEXICO CITY NEUTRAL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Colonel
RCnue Gonzales GarZa, temporary head
OF the convention government in Mexi-
co City, in telegram dated yesterday
and received here tonight by his agent
Enrique c. Llorente, announced that
the convention had proposed to Gen
era Gutierrez that the capital of
Mexico be declared neutral territory
and a general armistice agreed to in
order to conduct peace parleys. A
similar proposition, the message said,
will be made to General Carranza.
Somewhere outside of Mexico City |
is General Gutierrez, until last week |
provisional president under the con-
vention. with several thousand men |
who left the capital with him. At |
Vera Cruz General Carranza is main
tanning his government as first chief |
of the constitutionalists.
Today's advices to the state depart
ment indicated that the convention,
with Colonel Garza as its executive
and General Villa as it's military COM
mander, was preparing to evacuate
the capital before the advance of Car
rama forces from the south, planning
to set up temporary capital, prob
ably at Torreon
Colonel Garza's telegram, which an
parently left Mexico City about the
same time the latest state denartment
lenorts were dispatched, said
Public Cninion in the capital re-
mains confident My government,
which emanated from the sovereign
convention, has received offers from
private citizens to take up arms in
defense of the city and the convention.
1t has not, however, been deemed
necessary to accept such offers, for
the reason that the situation in the
capital is sufficiently safeguarded
with the force already at hand be-
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