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Both State Department aud Carranza Await Detailed Reports of Fl Paso Con ference Before Seeking An Agreement
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General Scott Is Need of Rest. Does Not See See retary Lansing, Though Makes Brief Report to Secretary Baker
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 WASHINGTON, May 15.-Both the state department and General Carran- ga are awaiting detailed reports of the recent Fl Pas0 military conference be- fore seeking an agreement as to the Mexican border situation through dip Iomatic conversations.
 General Scott. chief of staff of the army. returned today optimistic over the military situation and confident that the meetings between himself and General Funston on the one side and General Obregon. Carranza's war minister. on the other, had created better understanding between the gov ernments which might furnish the bas- is for d formal protocol. The chief of staff was in need of rest. however, and old not see Secretary Lansing. He re ported briefly to Secretary Baker but the full discussion Of his conversa- tions with General Obregon will come later
 Elieseo ArredondO, the Mexican am 1 bassador designate. ssKed for instruc- { tions as To his course last week, but i General Obregon probably will lot reach Mexico City for several days aud ] the reply from General Carranza is not ! expected al the embassy until the war i minister's report has neen received i War and state department advices i showed no change today in the situa- l ton in Mexico or along the border. : While press reports have told of seN- eral raids of q minor character at various points in the last few days. ] General Funston either has been un- l able to confirm these stories or has 1 thought them too unimportant to bring to the attention of the war depart ment.
 Administration officials continue to express confidence that the forces now under General Funston's command will be able to protect the border in such fashion that repetitions of the Glenn Springs raid will be impossible unless there are general anti-Amer-
 ican outbreaks beyond the border in
 which Carranza troops participate There is nothing to indicate the likeli
 hood of such an event. On the con-
 trary. all official advices at hand in , dlcate that NdfltllZd forces are hei'-
 disposed to prevent raiding across the line by irresponsible outlaws
 General Funston's new plan for co-
 ordinating the work of the border guards was regarded in some quarters
 here as tending to confirm limitations
 that an unwritten agreement as to
 steps to be taken were reported by the
 Fl Paso conference. If the plan in cludes an exchange of information as
 to bandit activities between respon-
 sible officers of the Carranza troops
 and the American commanders it was
 thought here considerable progress
 could be made without the troops of
 either government crossing the lines
 No official would admit. however, that
 a plan of action had been agreed upor
 by the conferees.
 General Scott prosaoly will confer Q at length with Secretary Baker tomor g TOW and later with Secretary Lansing . No time had been set tonight, however r for these interviews. There is no nee, t for haste in the formulation of a pro e tocol it is felt by officials here, i Y General Pershing's force is not to en.
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