The Ely miner., 1915-08-06
U.S.. TO SEEK AID OF
CENTRAL AMERICA
DECIDES TO ASK CO-OPERATiOH
IN STEPS TO RESTORE
PEACE TO MEXICO.
CONFERENCE is SCHEDULED
Six Southern Republics Send Ambas-
sadors md Ministers-Mexican
Question Considered Common
Cause of Pan-American Group.

washington, Aug. 4.-The United
States has decided to ask the cooper
alton OF South and Central America in
the next step to restore peace to Mex
leo.
The ambassadors from Argentina.
Brazil and Chile and the ministers
from Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala
have been asked to confer with Sec
retary Lansing here Thursday.
This announcement was made at
the state department.:
"On Thursday afternoon there will
be an informal conference at the state
department to consider the Mexican
situation. Those taking part in the
conference will be the ambassadors
from Brazil, Argentina and Chile and
the three ranking ministers of the
American republics, namely those Of
Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala.
AS to the details which will be con-
sidered nothing can be said at the
present time, as the conference will
be entirely confidential.
Conference Informal.
While the state department charac-
terlZed the coming conference as an
informal one the sentiment has been
growing among American officials
that the next step in the Mexican sit
uatlon should be one which would
meet the approval of sthe world and
should be taken in concert with the
nations of Central and South Ameri-
ca, even if in the last event the trend
should be toward military action.
The three ambassadors were medi-
ators in the Niagara conference in the
summer OF 1914. The three minis
ters are in point of seniority at the
mead or the Central American legation
corps.
Action in concert with the Central
and South Americans would be in line
with President Wilson's plan for a
closer relationship between the United
States and those countries and is
planned to show that the United States
considers the Mexican question the
common cause of the Pan-American
group and that this government enter
tains no idea of territorial aggression,
but is acting solely as Mexico's nearest
powerful friend and neighbor.
Those in closest touch with the Mex
lean question have been aware for
some time that the views Of the Pan
Americans were being taken into con-
slderatlon and on various occasions
have seen in the Presidents utter
auces evidences to that effect
Observers Foresee Plans.
Some of the closest observers of the
Mexican situation as long ago as last
March professed to see the Presidents
plan for Pan-American cooperation
when he delivered an address ON the
Argentine battleship, Moreno, and
said:
Il feel that am speaking the senti-
ments OF my fellow countrymen when
say that there is a growing warmth
of affection as well as understanding
for the other countries of the great
American hemisphere which we are
coming daily to understand better, and
which are, I hope, daily coming to un-
derstand us better and to which we
are drawn by feeling as well as inter
ests-by the desire to be comrades in
some common understanding for hu-
manity as well as neighbors.
want to express my feelings as Presi-
dent OF the United States that we are
rapidly approaching a day when the
Americas will draw together as they
never have drawn together before and
that it will be union not of political
ties but of understanding and of mu-
tual helpfulness.
1t is believed that the President then
was thinking of Pap-American joint
action with regard to Mexico. even to
Joint military operations if necessary.