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Show ICARRANZA NOTE MADEPUBLIC Chief of Constitutionalists Must Faithfully Carry Out Flan of Guadalupe. ASKS FOR MORE TIME Must Await Answers From Companions in Arms Before Appointing Delegates. Niagara Falls. July 2. The last note from General Carranza which was Id reply to a communication from the mediators under date of June 12. was made public today It says ; "The confidental agency of General Carranza at Washington has replied to the note of the mediators addressed address-ed to him June 12 stating. "The chief of the constitutionalist government duly appreciates the noble no-ble purpose of the mediators in ad dressing him an invitation to treat directly with delegates of General Huerta on the organization of a provisional pro-visional government capable of bringing bring-ing about in a prompt and consistent form the pacification of Mexico But notwithstanding his good will to give to the country an organic and durable peace b any means which will not bnng to naught the great sacrifices which the Mexican people have made in the present struggle, he is compelled com-pelled to consult the opinion of the generals of the constitutionalist army before deciding on the appointment of delegates to confer on his behalf with those of General Huerta regarding the possibility of reaching an agreement putting an end to the war. Mutt Carry Out Guadalupe Plan. " 'This obligation arises from the promise made by Mr. Carranza and by all constitutionalists faithfully to carry out the plan of Guadalupe, which proposes to restore the constitutional con-stitutional order by means of a provisional pro-visional president and which would be modified is such government were made to emanate from a possible agreement with the delegates of General Gen-eral Huerta as well as from his earn est desire that any agreement reach ed be strictly fulfilled. " 'With this end in view and in furtherance of the efforts of the mediators to procure a peaceful solu-I solu-I tion of the struggle which the Mexican Mex-ican people have been compelled to sustain in the defense of its institutions, institu-tions, the first chief has already addressed ad-dressed the generals of the constitutionalist constitu-tionalist army in consultation and only desires to request the mediators media-tors to allow him a short period of time during which he hopes to receive re-ceive answers from his companions in arms, in order to appoint delegates to treat with the delegates of General Huerta.' " |