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Show ULTIMATUM SENT BY GENERAL VILLA EAGLE- PASP, Texas, June 18. That I General Villa has presented an ultimatum I to General Carranza, demanding the absolute ab-solute separation of the civil and military mili-tary branches of the constitutionalist government, was the substance of dispatches dis-patches received at constitutionalist headquarters in Piedras Negras today. A committee of three officers was said now to be in conference with General Carranza Car-ranza at Saltillo, presenting General Villa's Vil-la's plan. According to constitutionalist officials at Piedras Negras, his plan is as follows: First Villa to have complete control of the army and to direct the military policy without interference, while Carranza Car-ranza Is to have control of the civil government gov-ernment and foreign relations. Second Villa agrees to recognize Carranza Car-ranza as his superior, provided Carranza accords him recognition as supreme military mili-tary chief. Third The promotion of officers and the disposition of their commands to be in Villa's hands. Constitutionalists expressed their belief that if these demands were granted. General Villa would proceed with the campaign and take personal command of the forces in the field. Otherwise, they said, they thought he would persist in his resignation and retire to Chihuahua to await such time as he could serve the constitutionalist cause without friction. i ue mini clause oi ilia s alleged ultimatum ul-timatum was accepted here as a direct answer to General Carranza's promotion of General Natera to command the division di-vision of the center and his resulting disastrous dis-astrous attack on Zacatecas. |