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Show HUERTA WILL PLAY 1 OUTJTHE GAME DECLARES THAT IT IS A CASE OF LIFE OR DEATH WITH HIM, AND HE WILL NOT RESIGN. Drives From His Cab net One of the Ministers Who Advised His Abdication Abdi-cation and Advoca-.ed Abandonment Abandon-ment of Power. 1 Mexico C'ty. What doubt remained regarding General Huerta's intentions with respect to compliance with the American demands for his own elimination elimi-nation was removed from the minds of most Mexicans and foreign residents resi-dents by his peremptory dismissal on Sunday of Manuel Garza Aldape, the minister of the interior, who was looked look-ed upon as the head of Huerta's cabinet. cabi-net. Manuel Garza Aldape led that group of the cabinet which held the conviction con-viction that it would be best to accede ac-cede to that portion at least of Washington's Wash-ington's demands which meant the total to-tal abandonment of power by the provisional pro-visional president, and he is said to have been the only one with sufficient courage to discuss the international situation frankly with his chief. It was he who called at the American Ameri-can embassy recently and induced Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the charge d'affaires, to send po Washington his appeal for the reopening of the negotiations. nego-tiations. 'Senor Aldape's resignation was demanded at a cabinet meeting at President Huerta's house early Sunday morning. Huerta is said to have reiterated at this meeting the statement that he would not resign, that ,with him it was a case of life or death, and he was disposed to play out the game. Certain intimate friends of General Huerta have been indicating to him for some time, it is said, that the minister min-ister of the interior was intriguing for the presidency and that the cabinet cabi-net had .become divided Into camps. Those who opposed Aldape included Querido Moheno, minister of foreign affairs, General Blanquet, minister of war, and Jose Maria Lozano, minister of fomento. |