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Show MMIONS SATISFACTORY, SAYSARRANZA First Chief, Declares War Will Be Avoided and That in Short Time Reforms Will Be in Operation. MKXrcO CITY, .luly M General rarran.a in an interview today said that tin- status of the negotiations with Washington was very satisfactory, as I tin- result nf the good will shown to ea.-h other by Mexii-n anil the I'nited States. "Tlianko to thin feeliiiR of good will." the first rhief continued, "we will he able to avoid war. War is eiimi-tiiiriK do not desire, hut if there were no other remedy for the situation I would euter upon it." (leaeial Carranza, however, refused to dis.uss the situation as it related to I he possible action of President Wilson or of tho Latin-American states and Mexico. Within a short time, the first ehief said, there would bo incorporated in tho constitution of Mexico all the reforms re-forms which now find a place in the programme of tho constitutionalists. Reforms in Operation. In a largo measure, he. declared, some of these reforms already are in operation opera-tion and there remains only their incorporation in-corporation into tho fundamental laws II I LIM' i:UU 11 I I V . . As to the holding of a presidential election, Carranza said that it would l a ho place, as soon as the work of re-coustructing re-coustructing the constitution had been i-umpleled and when tho country was 1 at pence. --TUc.d'? facto government, the first chief asserted-,--will i,:iss a law of amnesty, am-nesty, o that all Mexicans who have left tho count rv for one reason or another an-other can return if thev desire. Such a law, however, ho said, would not bo promulgated as long as the government was not. on a firm basis, because among sonio of the Mexicans now living abroad there are those who would return to Mexico to conduct agitations and disturb dis-turb labor conditions. Disturbers Not Wanted. ''As for myself, personally, I do not ,:ire " f.eneral Carranza declared, "but ' 1 do caro for the government and the I emiutrv. Tho work of bringing about the political reconstruction of Mexico is most difficult and must bo carried forward under peaceful conditions. Let these Mexicans who are disturbers stay where they are until such time as the countrv has a constitution and a government. gov-ernment. Then they can return and work.'' |