New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-31
Action To Be Taken on
Presidents Return to
Capital Next Week.
ALL DEPARTMENTS
READY FOR TROUBLE
Armed Intervention Not Con-
templated. Is Belief-Confer-
ence of Leaders Sought.

Washington. JUL 3O.-Defnite steps
toward restoration Of peace in Mexico
will be taken Immediately upon Presi-
don't Wilson'S return to Washington
next week. What specific action the
President may have decided on has not
been disclosed, but it was authorita-
lively stated tonight that the executive
derartments of the government were
preparing 20 carry out promptly the
n~orramme determined upon. Only an
unexpected move in Mexico itself to
end the strife. it is said, would further
DELAY action by the United States 10
restore constitutional government IN
the war torn republic.
Armed intervention is not believed
90 he contemplated in the Presidents
programme. Many officials believe no
forceful measures will be required
Persistent reports have reached mere
that the faction leaders are inclined 10
weld 10 the demands Of this govern
ment for a peace conference.
Reports are generally credited that
massage will be sent to the opposing
leaders. giving them a final chance to
resse hostilities within limited time
o,d assemble conference to settle
tboir differences. Possibilities OF an
o.Ler failure 10 do so, in view OF the
las- refusal of General CarranZa "
ioin in a conference with ms aaVer-
saries. are being considered oy the
President. il is declared, in formulating
a plan of action.
Army and Navy Preparing.
Whether in that event a general en-
harqo on arms expectations Will De I'M
nosed or American troops employed 70
assure transportation OF 1000 TO Ine
starving people of the country cannot
be predicted. 1t Is known, however
that the army and navy have oeeh pre-
pairing and now are ready lor any
Secretary Lansing said to-day that
the REPRESENTATIONS sent 10 HeheIdIs
Carranza. Villa and Zapata last night
u~cinc that routes to Mexico City De
ooened 70 provision trains, were force
mi The message to Carranza, VINO
Con.rols the railroad from Vera Cruz,
was particularly emphatic.
No answer from any OF the Mexican
Generals had been received tonight. II
was believed, however, that provision
trains would be moving to Mexico Slty
within a few days under guard OF Gar
Oficials we're led 10 this belief by
reports that General Gonzales mad
driven off a Villa column under zen
eral Fierro and returned TO VIA
GuaJeloupe. lust outside Mexico Clty'
preparatory 10 recccupylng ihe caPIt@i'
Rowing bands Of Zapata soldiers, whlcn
have been harassIng the railroad, are
being driven of, il was stated, ana
oarrisons stationed along the railroad
Would Hold Mexico City.
Charles A. Douglas, who returned to
Washington to-day from Vera Cruz,
after a conference with Generals Car
rama and Gonzalez, brought asSur-
ances that Carranza forces would hold
Mexico CITY after the reoccupauon, the
danger of isolation of the city by Nllla
and Zapata forces, which existed wnen
they took the town before. having been
overcome.
Separate representations have been
made 10 General Zapata regarding the
attack upon Allan Mallory, an amer,
lcan citizen. who was detained by
Zapata soldiers al Puebla while carry
ing departmental dispatches. An etori
has been made 10 fix the responsibility
for the attack and TO assure protection
Of Americans in future.
Carranza's Washington representa-
tive tonight made public a report
from General Obregon, via Vera Cruz
that he had defeated the main VIA
army at an undesignated point between
Araas Cahentcs and Zacatecas and
later occupied the latter place. Obre-
goo said his cavalry was pursuing the
Villa troops toward Torreon.
a Red Cross statement tonight said
conditions around HermOsillo, Sonora
were getting worse every day. The
government is taking all wheat from
farmers without asking and all flour.
4 statement, signed by forty Mex.
can residents Of Sonora and Forwarded
10 the Red Cross, said there was grea'
suffering. many families having only
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