Connecticut western news., 1915-08-19
NOTE IS SENT ID
 MEXICAN LEADERS
Advises Them to Enter Into
 Pe2Co Convention,
VILLA OFFE2S k TRUCE.

Will Be Known Within Sixty Days
 Whether Mexican Sovereignty Is to
 Be Righled by Mexico or Not-Wi'son
 Silent on Carranza's Attitude-Two
 RattIeships Sent and Third Ready.
 The pan-American note to the MeXi- can leaders adjuring them to enter into a peace convention with view to the establishment of a constitutional gov ernment south of the Rio Grunde is now on it's way to CarranZa. Villa. Zapata and other MeXicans concerned. Within sixty days at the most it will De known whether Mexican sover- eighty is to be righted by Mexico or whether the United States is to be con fronted with the alternative of resort ing again to "watchful waiting or adopting extreme measures to rid itself of the menace across the southern border line.
 On his return to Washington from Cornish, N. H. President Wilson iln- mediately went to work oil the Me&i- can tangle. He discussed with Secre tary Lansing the peace note agreed upon at the Latin American conference in New York.
 The president had nothing to say publicly about the notice which Gen eral CarTanZa served on the United States that he will not subscribe to any plan for the restoration of peace ill Mexico devised by the pan-American hn+ tnn6 fn Infnot the aim of the Constitutionalist party. of which he is the head
 General Villa is willing to agree to an armistice of three months in Mex ico, according to information reaching Washington through official channels It is understood that Villa made this offer through Major General Hugh l.. Scott chief of staff. who is at Fl Paso, following his adjustment of a number of problems affecting Amer ican residents of Chihuahua.
 That the United States will either be compelled to recognize General Car ranza, which the present administra- tion is strongly opposed to doing, or must intervene to bring about peace in Mexico, is believed forecasted hy a telegram from General Gonzales. com mander of Carranza's southern forces. received and given out by tue CarranZa agency in Washington.
 The fact that the Carranza agency gave out the telegram from General Gonzales. military commandant of Mexico City, clearly indicates, state department officials stated. that Gen. eral Carranza has not changed his at titude of unfalterinG opposition to in terference by the United States in Mex ico affairs since the issuance of Alp peal to Mexicans" from the Pan-Amer- ican conference which met in New York.
 Recognizing the gravity of the situa- tion along the Mexican border Major General Frederick Funston has re- quested that his force of 17.OOO troopers be re-enforced at once. owing to the increased depredations committed by Mexican bandits. The war department has ordered one regiment of infantry from Texas City to this place. together with all aerOplane. while a battery of 47-fnch guns and another battery of 4.7-inch howitzers have been sent to Texas from Fort Sill, Okla.
 It has now been admitted at the navy department that the battleships Louisiana and New Hampshire are bound for Vera Cruz. When the yes sels steamed out of Newport it was explained that the vessels were going to southern waters. Orders to the yes sels to move southward were issued immediately following the receipt of dispatch from Commander McNamee of the. U. s. s. Sacramento that the populace at Vera Cruz was in state of great excitement, owing to reports that the United States WIS about to intervene in Mexico. Since then Vera Cruz has quieted.