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Show FUST GIF REFUSES TO TALK PEACE WITHVfLLA Agency of Bandit Leader Lead-er Announces Carranza Has Declined to Enter Into Negotiations in Accordance With Recent Re-cent Suggestion. APPEAL READY FOR DISPATCH President and Secretary of State Spend Day in Consultation and Discussion Dis-cussion of Final Request Re-quest for Peace to Be Sent to All Factions. WASHKGTOIs Aug 12 President Woodrow Wilson on h s return from Cornish N H today was given a com prehens ve account of the Mexican sit uation in all its phases by Secretary of State Robert Lans ng The secretary told the president that offic al reports indicated that the s tuation in the vi cinlty of Brownsville was of a local character and that qu et preva led at Vera Cruz, where there had been some anti fore gn demontrat ons He out lined in detail the diseussion of peace plans at the Iew York conference yes terday of the American diplomats Ive ther the pres dent nor secretary was nclined to view the situation as requ ring any further precautionary measures than have been taken in send ing battlesh pa to Mexican waters and more federal troops to the Texas bor der They devpted most of their time to a discuss on of the inter American plan on which they are p nning the r hopes for early restoration of peace in Mexico Appeal to All The appeal to all factions has not been Bent although signed by Secre tary Lans ng and the emba sadors and mm sters of the six Central and South American governments participating in the conference A list of chiefs gen erals and governors is be ng compiled and as soon as the locations of all are determined the appeal w 11 be tele graphed s multaneously to every part of Mexico On the eve of th s action came the an nouncement trom the Villa agency here tonight that Car anza had flatly re fused to enter into any peace conference and would treat w th his opponents only on terms of unconditional surren der Lnr que C Llorente Washington representati e of Villa gave out let ters which have pa sed Detween him and El zo Arredondo the Carranza rep resentative here Llo ente began the correspondence in observing the press that Charles A. Douglas counsel for Carranza, had filed a br ef with the state department call ng attention to the presence in Wash ngton of Luis Ca berero and Elizo Arredondo as Carranza representat ves and Baying that either or both of them I am ass red will be glad to confer with any element of the Mex can people w th a view to further ing the common nterest and the peace and velfare of the nat on Unconditional Surrender Llorente prompt y telegraphed Vila and was ins ructed to begin a d scuss on of peace terms A redondo replied that he wou d refer the mat er to Carranza w hose response toda came n the form of Instruct o s o A redondo not to en ter Into negot at ons with he a agent After stating that he wou d accept only the uncond tlona surrender of his op poqents the Ca ranza message set fort that he e cou d be no nego at ons w th the 1 a forces because the r" troops on Ju j l9 ist attacl ed a m 1 tary con 05 train k ng man nnocent people Llor ente decla ed ton ght t at Mr Doug as s statement was made several weeks af er th s inc dent was ol eged to ha e oc cu red Incidentals Seeretar Lans ng revealed du ing the daj that i a ecent y had informed the sta e department that he was wl ng o s gn an arm st ce for three mon hs or longer du ing wh ch a peace conference m g t be he d To ente con firmed th s nformatlo an 1 added that Fe pe Ange es was now n conference with V 1 a at Chihuahua relat ve to de ta s of such an arm stice He pointed to this meeting as an ovidence of har mony n the V 1 a ranks Favorable to Plan Tnd cat ons are hat the "VI a and Za pata e ements are preparing to recel e favorably he appeal of t e United States and the Lat n Amer can governments Thev a ready are plann ng a peace con ference Officla a of the Un, ted Sta es govern (Continued on Page ThreeJ GARRANZA DECUKES ! Jfl DISCUSS PEACE ! (Continued from Pago One.) 1 ineut hope t liat many tfe-iieialu reported to be partlairf of t'ariai.za ul 1 i ma te y : will t,-lve ttieir rol hei-em-e to a peace con-feretc con-feretc e. 'fo ol f.et "thlH i n 1 pretf I'.n, the (."ai-runza t;en'y here today nave out a lint of Kuiit-ralH. IiH-ludliiK Obrr-on and tionzali--!, w)io wi-re reported to liave t'-le-KioiiheiJ expivt-Hlonn of loyally to Car-i Car-i an .i. Tru- apptat Hl,rn"d ty the An.fiban difi-lonia difi-lonia tri In Ne'.v Y01 k yeMerdav Is ad-drcHn.-d to all the lead'-r.s. t-'enerals and K'.v rvHoiv in Mexico and will be made puhll, tn a day or two. C'arranza's dia-pleaMtirt dia-pleaMtirt over t:ie effortx of the Ietln-Amerban Ietln-Amerban countries, in conjunction with l he I 'mt'-d Statt-t). due not nli'T the fe e 1 j n c of optimism fimoni; o ' t i c 1 a. 1 s and dip:ouiaif, -Alio deelaro unwarranted tii': I n fere n f-r- that any attempt is to be made to invade Mexico's HOvereiKnty. Peace Only Desired. The reply of th-i minister for foreign aifalrs oi Argentina to ("hitp r.7.a'B statement, state-ment, !..-' by the Cnrr.-iiiza awiey here, tn which it was .sta'd tnat the Lat 1 n - A merlcan count rle -spei i f ically un-d'-rstno-J at t.he outset of their ruufer-enre ruufer-enre that there was to he no Impairment Impair-ment of Mexb-rs .sovereignty, reiire-nts the vi'.-v. h o! t iie I "nit'-d S'tai ea govern -ment, wnoae pr-5erit rsffort, it was officially offi-cially s;at'-d today, is to obtain peace without !'i-.iun 10 measures of f'-rce o1 interference in the Internal affairs of Mexico. The I. 'nited States and the Iatin-Anrer-b an is'ovfrnnifri1, ac -ordlm; to the ex-plaiiation ex-plaiiation niv.n in h:ch official quartera, intend merely to exercise Judiciously the international ri?ht of a warding formal recomtj.'n to a Government In a neighbor neigh-bor coiinhy composed of elements which (teem most eapaole of Klin the necessary neces-sary guarantees of safety to IRe and property prop-erty and of complying with international obligations. The appeal addressed by t lie neveu wvrniiK'nts takes the form of anin-en anin-en governments taks the form tf an inquiry in-quiry to determine which of the factions or elements a re willing to rehabilitate the nation s sovereignty. Thoe elements which respond will be considered as exponents ex-ponents of national patriotism in Mev-leo, Mev-leo, while those who refuse to enter into such a pian will l.e ignored. Sei-retary Tanslnir said today he was not certain when the ra tin-American diplomats-would be called Into conference nain. Most likeiv th.e, next session will be held within 'Jire weeks, for the p-es- ; eni plan is to wait ten days after the reception of the appeal before consider- 1 ins n' replies received. |