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Show ID PLAN ' IS AGREED ON, SAYSJ11G Secretary Announces North and South American Powers Pow-ers Have Approved Outline Out-line of First Step. RATIFICATION IS TO BE GIVEN TOMORROW Chief of Department of State Will Not Give Details, De-tails, but Says Outlook Is Most Encouraging. WASHINGTON. Auk'. 9. I'owura uf North anil South America already hnve a;retj uj-on u definite i-'an for dealing with th Mwlian problem, and when the Pan-American conference la rt-umed In New York Wednesday tne programme wtll be formally ratified. This Information i-rr.e today from Bocrttury of State I-an-slnjf, who. though he would not d lacuna deUJla. said he was decidedly encouraged encour-aged over tho prxwpecta. The confidence expressed by officials ffenoraJly hers that the conferees represent rep-resent Ins th United States. Brazil, Argentina. Bolivia. Guatemala and Uruguay Uru-guay will be able to bhape a course likely like-ly to bring peace and restore constitutional constitu-tional government tn Mexico, ts due to tbe fact that all are agreed that most of the people In the revolution-torn republic re-public are thoroughly sick of war and with encouragement from friendly powers pow-ers will promptly Join In a movement to clean hou. To Address All. A Large aectlon of the country and a vast majority ot the people have not been Involved in the fighting winch followed fol-lowed the overthrow of Huerta. More-! More-! over. It has been reported to President Wilson and Secretary Lansing that only the fear of reprisals by the military chieftains chief-tains has kept the people in subjection while the country haa been impoverished by tho battle of relatively small forcea of armed men. Reaching their conclusion on these re-porta. re-porta. the Pan -American conferees are understood to have determined to present pre-sent the situation to all of the various elements In Mexico, addressing directly not only Generals Carranza, Villa and Zapata, but tho governors of states, all military leaders with any considerable foUowtnge and other influential men. urging urg-ing them to come together for a caucus at which a substantial provisional government gov-ernment might be framed. Would Have Support. A government so set up would have ! the support of the United States and : other American republics. Officials here beileve It would be able to suppress promptly any dlsra tinned groups which might attempt to continue civil strife. It la hoped that none of the important chiefs will offer opposition to the plan, but if trouble does develop and action is necessarv by the American powers, the conferees believe they 'would have the support and approval of the civilian population pop-ulation of Mexico in any step which might be taken to assure the restoration of peace. There has been talk of Joint armed intervention in-tervention bv the powers represented In the conference to quiet any leader who Insists upon remaining1 In the field with military forces. Some of the conferees, however, are said to believe that the moral support of the powers behind such elements as Join In the conference for ) a new provisional government, together with a strict embargo against the shipment ship-ment of war munitions (o anyone in Mexico except the government so formed, would quickly accomplish thei desired result. Lansing Optimistic Secretary Lansing talked optimistically today about the situation. He said: When the conference adjourned here last Friday it had reached the point where a very definite policy with regard to the solution of the Mexican problem had been agreed upon. The conference was adjourned because I wished to consult President Wilson regarding this agreement. I have consulted him through correspondence corre-spondence and we are now ready to resume deliberations and to proceed with the working out of the details based upon the original agreement. Administration officials were somewhat perturbed over official announcement that the Guatemalan rninieter to Mexico, Mr. Ortega, had been ordered from Mexico by General Carranza and reports that friction between Carra nza and Senor Cardosa, Brazilian minister to Mexico and for many months the diplomatic agent there of the United States, had preceded pre-ceded the letter's determination to leave Mexico st this time. Cardosa is coming to the United States to confer with Mr. Da Gama, Brazilian minister, who is one of the Mexican conferees. He will travel from Vera Cruz to New Orleans on an American gunboat, which will also bring Minister Ortega. Has No Knowledge. Secretary Lansing aald he had no I knowledge of the Brazilian minister's 1 reason fur leaving- Mexico nor of his intended in-tended visit to the United States, except ex-cept he had beard the minister's health waB poor. Authoritative Information from diplomatic sources, however, is to tbe effect that General Carranza and Mr, C'ardoFa have not been friendly for some time and that it was necessary for the latter to leave to prevent an open breach. C A. Douglas, Carra nr' s counsel here, admitted that there were differences between be-tween Carranza and Cardosa, but declared de-clared he did not believe Carranza contemplated con-templated any action against the min- lBtmerican interests In Mexico City. Mr. Lansing said, probably would remain in a. "state of .quiescence" after Cardosa 's t departure. C. B. Parker, an American 1 " Continued on Two.) PEACE Pffi TO BE RflllEIEB TOMORROW (Continued from Page One.) at tiichM to the ttr.iJtlli.'t n lecrttion. has b''cn directed to take charge of the United Slates archives, although he has no official atntns. lasted about two hours and was attended attend-ed by a committee of representatives of mining corporations. Zach Cobb, collector of the port, and representatives of merchants mer-chants whose property ie under seizure at Chihuahua- At the close of the inference General Scott speI in an automobile across the international bridge to Juarez. On the Mexican side a line of cavalry was drawn up' to es'.ort General Scott. Back of the line were General Villa and his alds In an automobile. After an exchange of greetings. General Villa escorted General Scott to tbe Villa quarters, -where General Gen-eral Scott Fpent about twenty minutes. Fighting Reported. LARK DO. Texas. Aug. 9. Passengers from Monterey. Mexico, arriving here to-dav to-dav report ftKhunsj between Villa and Carranza forces continued in the vicinity of Saltilln when thev left thM senlon. Villa troops, they said, eilll were in possession pos-session of Saltillb. Refugees From Yucatan. HAVANA. Auk. 9. The steamer Mexico, Mexi-co, which arrived here today from Mexican Mexi-can pfrts, had among her rassensers , fortv-flve refugees from Propreso. most of them wealthy Mexicans. They report the conditions in Yucatan as intolerahle. L.ife a.nd property there are declared to be unsafe and a general exodus is Impending. Impend-ing. The Cuban government has sent on board the steamer Morro Castle about 250 Cubans resident in Yucatan. Minister Withdrawn WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Carranza officials offi-cials bere today paid the Brazilian minister minis-ter at Mexico City, the onlj- diplomatic representative the United States has In Mexico, has been withdrawn by his government gov-ernment because Garrara was prepared to expel him from the country as he did Senor Ortega, the Guatemalan minister. Correspondent Held. WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. Conml Canada at Vera Cruz cabled the state department today that Henry W. Francis, correspondent correspond-ent of the International News Service, had been In prison, incommunicado there for three days, and was removed to the penitentiary today. Francis, the mesa. said. thiiLks his life is in danger and drastic dras-tic action is neceseary to save him. |