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Show ""MEXICAN SITUATION , REACHES A CRISIS 4 ' President Wilson Issues Statement Relative to the Sending of John Lind to Mexico City on Mission of Peace Proposal Will Be Made Y(( Public at Washington and Mexico City at IS Same Time "I C; STATEMENT TO BE ISSUED TO POWERS !ren, it Administration Hopes to Bring About Peace i it Between the Two Factions Mexican Charge at Washington Delivers Official Message to President Wilson, Protesting Against John 1 4 Lind's Trip to Mexico Without Recognition Rebels Renew Activities in Northern States BT L Washington, Aug. S After a conference with President Wilson, il JSccrviarv Bryan today issm-il the following statement '- "The statement of the Mexican foreign office is based on misrep-'reseutntinn misrep-'reseutntinn for v.-liwh tins ovcrnmenl is nol responsible. In send--J ing Governor Lund as adviser to the ebmassy, tlie president is i n-Ktirely n-Ktirely within his right and the department will not assume thai his yJL going will be regnrrir, as unfriendly when the character of the mission is understood. ' L "Washington, Aug 8. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing the unfavorable attitude of the Sj; Huerta government toward the mis It eton of John Lind, personal represen 1 m tathe of President Wilson, the admin ifcf Islrailon here intends to follow oui SW its program of peace toward Mexico to the letter and hopes to gain the f support of public opinion throughout Oil the world by making known each si ill In the plan to foreign government- As Boon as Mr. Llnd advises the state department here of his arrival w In Mexico City, there will be made 41 public in Wi6hin;;tou and In the Mex-f Mex-f lean capital simultaneously the pro posal which the United States offers are marking the pathway to pence, b The proposals will bo transmitted as I a mutter of Information to the dlplo- 1 matic corps here for the other gov-I gov-I ernments of the world What tho proposals contain has not Ybeen officially disclosed but admlnls- tration officials here are relying on t the moral force of public opinion f; throughout the world to support the elfort to persuade the contending fnc-M fnc-M tlona to come to an understanding sm Secretary Bryan and Secretary Dan-U Dan-U iels talked the situation over with tho 2 president during the day but It was w said no change in plans was eontem-r; eontem-r; plated. Mexico's Defiant Attitude. "Washington. Aug. 5. After a con- ference with President Wilson at the. Wt White House early today, Secretary I Bryan announced he had received the r message from Manuel Garza Adalpc, ! acting minister of foreign affairs, de- if clarlng on behalf of President Huerta j that the presence of John Llnd would ' bo undesirable in Mexico unless he 2 hrought recognition of the Huerta j W government iMr. Bryan said that there was no j i ehango In plan with respect to Mr. Lind's rnlsF.lon. He declined to s;iy whiit the nature of the American gov- ernment's reply to the Adalpe tries- I sage would be. Secretary Bryan said that the mes-I mes-I sag had been transmitted through tho P AniT'can emlnsri at Mexico City. 1 had brnn translated during the night H and was presented earh today to g President W iNthi. Tho president h?d t taken the position that it was in- credible that the Huerta government: j would return to receive an envoy . bound on n peaceful mission. Receipt I of today's ni'-Ksnpe brought the sltua-' sltua-' I tlon to n diplomatic crisis No information was forthcoming after the confernce as to what the I next step In the policy of tho Amer-; Amer-; lean government would be but It was )f considered more likely that the mes-i mes-i sage of reply to the acting minister Jf of forelsm affairs would further outline out-line tho friendly Intentions of the United States, which would be ex-' ex-' pressed by Mr. I.lnd and would proh-ablv proh-ablv suggest that judgment be withheld with-held concerning Mr. Lind's mission until ho had had an opportunltv. through tho American embassy at j Mexico City, to transmit the -lews ol (I Provident Wileon and Secretary Bryan e smooth Over Trouble JB Douglas, Ariz . Aug 8 The trou-R trou-R ble reported yesterday between Governor Gov-ernor Maytorena and members of the i fionora st:te congress has been pmootned over, according to a message mess-age received horo todnv From (Jenoral Obregon, one of the coi:6llimlonallst leaders. Obregon also said he had no lnfor-niatlon lnfor-niatlon regarding the report that 'l Maytcrena. after Raining the reins of government, had reduced acting Governor Gov-ernor Pesquerla to a subordinate cler ical position, Instead of making htm - commander-in-chief of the antl--jj Huerta forces In northwestern exlco. Mexican P'tnu Bitter. Mexico City . Aug 8- Tho precs of the Mexican capital today continued Its discussion of Provisional President Huerta'l note to Secretary of State Bryan doclarlng that tho preeenco or John Lind in Mexico would bo undesirable unde-sirable unless ho brought with him (recognition by the United StiUca ol the present Mexico government. The newspapers unanimously np-plaud np-plaud President Huerta and support B their criticism of President Wilson's JJJdtcy by publishing extracts from .American newspapers In which President Presi-dent Wilson is attacked There is a noticeable lack of the vicious anti-Americanism which usually usu-ally attends discussions of the I warmth of the present one and the opinion appears prevalent here, ac cording to tho expressions of the newspapers that President Wilson des not represent the .-pint of the per. pJe of the United States In the poli- y he is pursuing. The Independents In an editorial article entitled "The Psychology of Wjlson " says that the endin; of John Lind to Mexico has been a blunder and is so recognized b the press ol the United States. The Mexican newspapers, both those primed fn English and those in Spanish. reflect the approval by Americans In the Mexican capital of Provisional Precident Hurta's Btand Frederlco Gamboa, the newly appointed ap-pointed foreign minister, who is to succeed Manuel Garza Aldape, th transmitter of Huerta's note. i3 due to arrive here tonight. His attitude or influence has not yet b-'on defined, although he n believed to be complete com-plete dominated by Huerta It is regarded as probable thai ther will not be any outward demonstrd Hon of hostilltv apalnst John Lind on his arrival, although there has been no abatement of the disapproval on the part of Mexicans of his coming oo |