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Show PROPOSE MAKING GAP1TALNEUTRAL VILLA AND ZAPATA AGREE TO PLAN OF UNITED STATES REGARDING RE-GARDING MEXICO CITY. Purpose is to Assure Safety of Foreigners, For-eigners, Local Council Made up of Prominent Residents to Govern at Capital City. Washington. With the hope of securing se-curing permanent protection for th La. (00 foreigners in Mexico City thej I'nited States government has proposed pro-posed to the Villa-Zapata forces and to General carranxa that the Mexican capital be declared neutral and out-; side the field of operations hereafter in Mexico's civil war. I The Villa-Zapata forces have agreed to the proposal and are willing to evacuate the city as soon as a similar j agreement is obtained with the Car-! ranza authorities, who are now being negotiated with. On General Carranza depends also w hether or not the effort of the I'nited States to neutralize the railw ay be-j twen Mexico City and Vera Cruz shall succeed, as the Villa-Zapata officials offi-cials have likew ise given their as-j sent to this proposal. I State department officials decline to discuss the status of the two proposals pro-posals beyond saying that they still w ere. under consideration. The plan with respect to Mexico City contem-, plates an arrangement whereby order, would be maintained there by a local council, made irp of prominent n-sl dents selected by mutual agreement between the opposing factions. The capital would not then, under the tenus of the proposed agreement, be subject to further attacks, nor would tlo re tie any more changes in govern i.itrut until a central government had been established. Should tiie capital be declared neutral, neu-tral, much i f the appn In nsion for the safety of foreigners would be r.-moved r.-moved and the famine menace eliminated. elim-inated. Since such a step would lessen les-sen the likelihood of complication with foreign powers the plan. In the opinion of American officials, shou'd appeal to all Mexican factions. |