The Sentinel=record., 1915-02-11
DUVAL WEST GOES AS THE PER. SoNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF
 PRESIDENT WILSON.
WILL VISIT ALL FACTIONS
Win Make Clear the Position of the United States in Regard to the Pro- lection of Foreigners and Their Interests.

Washington Feb l0.-Duyal West. former United States district attor-
 ney at San Antonio, Texas, was se lected today to 90 to Mexico as the
 personal representative of President Wilson.
 Secretary Bryan announced MT Vests selection. The mission is simi ar to that of Paul Fuller, who
 some time ago conferred with the va rious leaders and returned to this
 country with his reports.
 Mir West carries no written in- structions but is commissioned to
 make general inquiries into the con. ditions interview the principal lead CTS, including Carranza. Villa and Za- Eata, and make clear to them the position of the United States govern ment with respect to the protection
 of foreigners and their interests.
 The length of tune the presidents envoy will spend in Mexico has not| been determined, nor has any an nouncement been made as to whether | he will see Carranza or Villa first. Eventually he will go to Mexico City
 tEere to cooperate with the Brazilian minister, who is caring Fer American 1 interests, and Consul John k. Sill. man.
 | It is understood that while MT. ! West will point out the growing necessity for a permanent settl ment
 Of affairs in Mexico, he does not take | any plan or suggestion from the l United States. He has lived a mum. l Der of years il Mexico and is under stood to be generally familiar with
 the situation in the southern re. | public.
 After conferences with President
 Wilson and Secretary Bryan, Mir
 West departed tonight for San An
 tonic, from which point he probably will go to Vera Cruz to meet General Carranza
 News of the military situation ilI Mexico reaching the state depar.- ment today was briet Further re- ports of the defeat of the CarraIza forces at Monterey were received, with the information that about one thousand wounded troops have been
 put on trains and sent to the border Work on the Notifications around TampicO is proceeding energetical- ly,' according to department telo- gram, in anticipation of an attack by Villa forces. The gunboats Zaragosa and ldbertad nave arrived with aIdi tional Carranza troops from Vera i Cruz
 Enrique C, Lloreute, Washington 1 representative of General Villa. re ceiyed a telegram from the latter say ing he personally had captured with his forces a station just in front of Guadalajara and expected to re-take the city from the Carranza forces within another day or two As soon | as this city is taken Villa intends to | concentrate on Tampico, planning
 not to move on Mexico City until the
 north is completely under his control In the meantime the famine cCndi, tions in Mexico City are growing se-
 rious. The following report of the situation there was issued tonight; There continues to be a shortage
 of the bread supply and it is said
 that there was recently noticed bread line in which there were about
 300 waiting their turn. According to reports the scarcity of bread and 1 water is greater than 1t has ever been
 before. Some people are eating bread
 made from bran On February the | American Club served cornbread toI l the needy.
 The authorities still hold out the
 promise that they vii. bring about an | improvement in the situation. lt is said that as there was no flour oA| hand on the morning of the Sth. a large but quiet demonstration was
 made in front of military headquar
 ters by men of the working classes protesting against the annument of
 the fiat currency It is stated that their protest was fruitless.
 Tt is reported that the Mexican
 Telephone Company was taken over l by the local authorities in Mexico City last Tuesday and the manage
 ment given to striking employees of
 the company
 The department is informed that
 Felicitas Villareal was sent to Vera Cruz on the morning of the Sth It