The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-01
No Word From Mexico City.

iiFaIa Vi any AC6ptA0tAoitS VI chtIi tpA~
sequences.
No Word From Mexico City.
The State Department has no word
from Mexico City, nor any report
whatever indicating that the plight OF
the inha bitants of the capital is in any
way relieved There is still no means
of communication with Mexico City
from the outside world. In the alb
sence of the President and Secretary
Lansing. nothing Is being done about
this situation, though both are being
kept advised of important develop
ments in all tae situations In which
the State Department is most inter-
ested.
Red Cross advices are to the ef-
feet that the famine conditions In
Mexico are constantly growing worse;
that such relief work as has been car
drop In the bucket compared to what
Is needed.
Increasingly urgent appeals for
help are coming from all regions In
Mexico. II is said that In many his
tricts the military authorities continue
10 permit expectation of food supplies
for gold. while the mass of the people
are without food or means with which
to- purchase 1t
Carranza Promises Support.
Relief supplies intended fof
Pachuco. the first relief point estab-
lished in southern Mexico. are expect
ed to go forward in a day or two
Carranza has promised transportation
for the supplies of carloads of corn
and beans Up to this time all avail
able rolling stock has been used to
tarHpert troops presumably to rein
force General Gonzales in his siege al
Mexico City Consul General Shankiin
and Red Cross Agent O'Connor are or
their way to Pachuco to take charge
of the relief distribution, They hops
to reach Mexico City eventually.
The tuntas here were quiet today,
General Angeles spent the day with
his associates of the Villa agency. The
Carranza people seem hopeful largely
because of the imminent arrival OF
Charles Douglas, CarranZa's Washing
ton attorney, at Vera Cruz. Douglas
Is expected to do his utmost TO con-
vince Carranza OF the wisdom of cons
ceding a point here and there for the
sake of gaining the good favor of the
United States All, Of Carrauza's ads
visers are in favor of making some
concessions in order that the Wash
ington government may not be able
to place on the first chief the onus OF
continuing the present strife and at
tendant intolerable conditions in Mex
leo. The villa agency and General
Angeles repudiated today the effor,
made by two members of the stan OF
General Baul Madero to get President
Wilson to receive General Angeles. II
was declared that these officers sought
the President at Cornish yesterday
solely on their own responsibility.
Hipolite's Graft Ont on.
The State Department has been adj
vised of an important change in the
collection of customs at Juarez, which
Is expected to make for more satis-
factory conditions, Hipolite Villa,
brother of General Villa. has hereto
fore been permitted to collect all the
customs, the privilege having been
given him by his brother in company
with the vice privileges at Juarez.
Hipolite has been reported to be rap
idly accommodating a fortune. General
Villa has now ordered his collection
agency abolished and customs will be
henceforth collected through the Gus
tom house as in peace times villa
has also removed Colonel Borboa
from the San Luis Potosi district, on
complaint of American mining com
panies. who report conditions which
threaten with forced loan and con-
fiscation OF their properties.