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Show ieiis en TO MI CAMPS Sonora Regarded as Safe by-Secretary by-Secretary Bryan ; Mines Will Be Reopened. EL PASO, Tex., April 30. .Roberto V. Pesqucira, diplomatic agent for the constitutionalists, who has been in correspondence cor-respondence with Secretnry . of State Bryan, was notified tonight that American Ameri-can consuls had been instructed to permit per-mit Americans who had been ordered out. of Cannnsa, 1C1 Tigro and Nacozari, Sonorn, to return to those places in or-dor or-dor that they could reopen the large mining properties located there. Seuor Pesqucira had requested Secretary Bryan Bry-an to permit the Americaus to return us thu shutting down of tho properties had thrown 30,000 Mexican laborers out of work and they had no means of subsistence. sub-sistence. Pcsquiern said the Americans would bo permitted to import such materials not barred under the arms embargo as would be required to operate their mining min-ing plants. This includes oil. gasolino. powder aud dyuamite. Pesquicra said tonight of tho mediation plan: "Of course any official statement on this important subject must come from our chief. General Carranza, but T will state in the first place that it has not yot reuched the Mugo of 'mediating' as the invitations so tar are merely in the form of a proposal of 'good oftic.es' toward bringing about mediation. Con- j seqnentl' T believe it a good thing, no matter what the final result, as it delays de-lays matters and gives all parties con-1 corned time for calm reflection. That. Ilucrtn accepts tho good offices is an indication in-dication of his desperate situation and due, no doubt, to the pressure of liuro-poau liuro-poau representatives and the recent victories of tho constitutionalist forces in tho field." |