iILLl VflLLlliU lU LABOR FOR PEACE El Paso, Tex., Aug. IS. Following is the official text of General Villa's reply to the Pan-American, appeal for peace, which reached here tonight from Chihuahua: "I, as geueral-in-chief of the con-ventionlst con-ventionlst army, havo been Informed with satisfaction of tho friendlv note which your excellencies have addressed address-ed to me and which I received on the night of August 15. "In replying, I have the honor to Inform you that J.he conventional gov-crnment gov-crnment is strong enough through its own force and power to continue the fight defending the institutions belonging be-longing to the Mexican people until such a time as tho high Ideals of the revolution which guarantee a solid and stable peace are realized; hut taking into consideration the friendly and brotherly attitude of the United States of America and our sisters, the Latin-American republics of Brazil Chile. Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala and with the end thatl peace in Mexico must be an lmmed-1 into fact and eonstiutional order dulj established, we are ready to accept and cordially we do accept the good offices of your excellencies toward calling a reunion of delegates of the contending parties recognized in Mexico. It will be possible for them to reach a satisfactory agreement, thus saving the national honor, well understanding that tho conventionist government is willing to make all kinds of efforts to correspond to the good will expressed by your excellencies. excellen-cies. "I want to state clearly that all military mil-itary chiefs as well as the civilians attached at-tached to the conventionist army are willing to establish in Mexico a provisional pro-visional government that will guarantee guar-antee the elections to which people will be convocated to elect with liberty lib-erty its officers, as we have no fur- mer uesire except that tho nomination nomina-tion will bejn favor of a determined man. I have the honor to reiterate to your excellencies the sincerity, of my highest esteem. (Signed) "FRANCISCO VILLA, "General-in-Chief of Operations." The Villa reply is directed to Secretary Sec-retary Robert Lansing and to each of the Latin-American diplomats who had signed the message to General Villa. It is sent to Manuel Bonilla, Enrique En-rique C. Llorente at Washington with instructions to forward copies to each of the diplomats. Minister of Foreign Relations Miguel Mi-guel Diaz Lombardo of the conventionist conven-tionist cabinet, telegraphed to the Pan-American diplomats that the other oth-er military and civil chiefs of the convention government would reply to the message this week.