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Show PLAN OP SCOTT APPROVED IT WASHINGTON Firing- of Mexicans Into American Territory Along Mexican Border Believed to Be at an End. HILL TO ABANDON POSITION AT NACO Sonora Town to Become Neutral; Maytorena to Hold Nogales and His Rival Agua Prieta. WASHINGTON'. Dec. Svrat.iry Pryatt n-ctd ved wortl ur.nf flcially tonluht that th i l.m propotl by lir'adir General Gen-eral UtiKh L. Scott, chief of staff of the Unitfd States amy. for the prevention preven-tion of ilrlrscr into American territory I a'onff tho Mexican 1, crier. hid been agreed t:poa hy ah fa-tion.-. Fnri'iue C. Iorente. Was-hlnjfton agent cf the Gutierrez government, of which General Maytorena at Nnco Is a supporter, support-er, wr s a-; vis d t'.'.at the latter had accepted ac-cepted the plan suggested by General Scott. It provided that General Hill of the Carrar.tii forces should abandon Na- co and tc permitted to go unmolested to; A 51:1 Prieta. already held by a portion of his troop. Genera! Maytorera, who has witlhJrawn his forces southward from Nfcco. would asree not to occupy 1 ;o. tlonora. which would thenceforth! become absolutely neutral. j As Maytorena already holds Negate?, a ; p-ort of entry, he is mid to believe timt 1 the arrarsiir.ent was neither to hia ad- j vantage nor detriment. ' letter for Defence. I From vhe viewpoint of General H:ll. the con'.;r.d.d pcx:es;!on of Nao was paid to Le of little value, because the Maytorena May-torena forces be6ieg.ny it from the south prevented the further transportation of supplies obtained through t:j port from Lhe United States. By retiring to Agua Pr.eta, Hill, it Is believed, will t-e enabled to better di-fer.d himself against all attack. From tne American pnint of view, the arrarLgement was favore-1, because fighting fight-ing at titi;er Afrua Prieta or Noales would not be ckse enough to the American Ameri-can towns to produce the same situation as had existed for several months at Na-co, Na-co, where stray bullets constantly fell on Amerl-.-.in ho'L Mr. Lhjrente faid he had a telegram from General Villa, to the effect that harmony prevailed between Gutierrez and all the chiefs. Llorente therefore thought the statement Issued by the private secretary sec-retary to Gutierrez last night, charging Villa with diEObedlence of orders, was due to a misunderstanding which could not have resulted In anything serious. Agents of General Villa here announced ton i grit that the ' green book." the lale-st diplomatic paper dealing with the Mexican Mex-ican revolution, would be issued this week. It was said that General Villa would explain in th; publication why he Is opposing General Carrai za, and would make puhllo certain hi'herto secret documents, docu-ments, designed to prove that had Car-ranza Car-ranza be;n made president he would have repudiated his pledges to the people and ruled tne country as a dictator. WHEREABOUTS OF ITU RBI DE UNKNOWN EL PASO, Texas, Doc. ST. Mexican secret service men. seeking Eouardo I turbid e, former governor of the federal district of Mexico City, whose arrest as a traitor had been ordered by General Villa, trailed Leon Conova, representative representa-tive of the United States department of state, on a northbound train from the Mexhjan capital, in the belief that turbid tur-bid e was concealed in Conova's stateroom. state-room. It became known here todoy that tt:e whtM-L-abouts of Tturbide. who bore passports from provisional President Gutierrez, Gut-ierrez, are Rtill unknown here. A t Aguas C'alientes Conova refused to permit the search of his compartment. At Torreon a company of troops boarded the train with a second request for ad-ntiFSion. ad-ntiFSion. Conova re-iuested the conductor to telegraph a protest to General Villa, the troops meanwhile deferring a ction. At Chihuahua City the train was delayed over night by wtiat was Eald to be a wrecked car, Conova was asked to remove re-move hla luggage to a day coach. As he removed the last bag from his compartment, com-partment, a number of state officials and secret service men pounced into his stateroom. state-room. The place was empty. SPECIAL AGENT OF BRYAN IS ACCUSED MEXICO CITY, Dec. li-I. via El Paso, Dec 27 ("delayed). General Villa tonight telegraphed officials at Chihuahua to remove re-move Eduardo Iturbide from a northbound north-bound train and to return him a prisoner to Mexico City. Iturbide acted as governor gov-ernor of the federal district for a snort tlmo after the Carranza forces evacuated the capital. Upon the entrance of Zapata Za-pata he was compelled to go into hiding, as his arrest was threatened. It wa.s said that he was concealed in one of the foreign legations of the capital until two days ago, when he was smuggled into the d rawing room of a sleeping ca r and started on his journey toward 131 Paso. When this became known General Villa became furious, saying: "A foreigner, an American named Leon Conova, who claims to be a represeti tali ta-li v- of Secretary of State Bryan, SPiUKcdd Iturbide into a car ani a t-temoted t-temoted to get him across the American border. He had no right to do thlw and 'has meddled unwa rrantcdly in Mexican (Continued on Fago Seyen.) pli of scon IS APPROVED BYWiLSOri ' (Continued from Page One.) affairs. Iturbide must be brought back to Mexico City and stand trial for the oii'enes of which he Is charged." Zapata officials claim to have evidence that Iturbide forced employees cf bis plantation to join Huerta's army during the recent revolution and have asked for ids execution as a traitor. Generals Vilta and Gutierrez today held a conference by wire with General Zapata, who was at Cueniavaca. As 8 result !t was decided to dismiss all formei federal officers from the present armies |