The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-14
THE PAN-AMER|CAN PEACE CONFERENCE
 WILL BE CALLED ID
 ORDER WEDNESDAY
Lansing Confers With Presi. dent Wilson Before Max ing AnnOuncement-Car- ranza's Counter Proposal to Have Consideration

| Washington, September 13-Furthei
 steps in the Pan-American effort to re-
 store peace in Mexico will be considered
 at a third meeting here Wednesday oi
 Secretary Lansing and the six Latin
 American diplomats participating in the
 movement. Mir Lansing announced the
 call for the meeting today after a con-
 ference with President Wilson. The conferees will have favorable re- ports from Generals Villa and Zapata
 and their leaders to the appeal for a peace convention on neutralized Mexi-
 can territory to set up a provisional government. From General Carranza they will have a rejection and a pro- posal that the conferees meet him on
 the border to consider international phases of the Mexican situation. his claims for recognition and his ability to protect foreign interests and adjust international problems.
 I Careful consideration will be given the Carranza counter proposition and it is known some of the diplomats favor l 1t Since the last meeting of the con- ferees Carranza forces under Obergon have swept northward and are now threatening Villa at Torreon. giving weight to Carranza's assertion that he is about to crush all opposition. On the other hand Villa representatives in-
 sist their losses have been exagger- ated and that Carranza ds-making a demonstration to impress the outside world.
 Enrique c. Llorente, head of the Villa Washington agency, just back from Tor 1 reon, issued a statement tonight say ing:
 Villa Statement
 Tt is doubtful whether Carranza is any stronger now than he ever was Ills advance into the north has been com pletely overbalanced by successes of the Zapatistas in central ond southern Mex leo. It is stated on high authority that 1 the armed strength of the Zapatistas is 65 900 men, They have complete control of the state of Morelos, control of all
 of the state of Guerrero, except the port of Acapulco, and partial control of Pu-
 ebla, Tlaxacala, Hidalgo. Mexico, Guana- Juato and Michoacan. In every state of the republic elements of both factions
 are to be found contending, except in the state or Cnlnuanu ana MOreloS,
 which General Villa and General Zapata, respectively control completely. General Villa has 22,00O well equipped,
 well trained men, of excellent morale, in Torreon. He has 47 pieces of artillery General
 Madero has 12.000 before Monterey. The garrison at Juarez. Casas Grandes, Palo- mas, Pearson. all along the railroad from Chihuahua to Torreon and from Durango to Paredon, will bring his total fighting forces up to 47.O00 men. While the people of the United States are reading reports from Carranzista sources of the fall of Torreon that city has never been in the
 slightest danger of attack. Business is normal and the populace goes about its
 affairs quietly and as calmly as in any ordinary city in a peaceful country Gen. Roque Gonzales Garza, former provisional President of Mexico, will ar rive in Washington shortly. He will be i in position to inform the press and the
 public of the true situation in central Mexico, where he has been for the past
 year."
 State department advices today said the governor of Yucatan had issued a decree privileging planters to withhold delivery
 of sisal hemp under sales contract until November 1.