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Show SUM II DAMAGES IS SDUGHTDF U. S. Foreign Government Said to Want That Amount for Sponsorship of Carran-za Carran-za by This Country. ARBITRATORS GIVEN FULL NAVAL HONORS President Wilson, Addressing Address-ing Mediators, Declares His Comprehension of Conditions in Mexico. By International News Service. NEW LOXDON, Counv Sept. 12 Two conflicting developments in the Mexican situation overshadowed all others today. They were: President Wilson's declaration to the Carranza delegates that this conference should devise ways for the social? political, politi-cal, industrial and economic regeneration regenera-tion of Mexico. A threat front foreign governments that the "United States would bo held responsible for $-100,000,000 in claims for damages because of its sponsorship of the Carranza government. The president received the American and Mexican delegates aboard the Mayflower, May-flower, as she lay at anchor off the Hotel Griswold, where the commissioners commission-ers are holding their deliberations. Later he came ashore as the commission's commis-sion's guest. Looks Into Future. The president declared the problem under discussion involved far more than a peaceful settlement of. the border question. Bandit raids and guerrilla warfare, he said, would continue as long as there were desperate economic and social evils to provoke insurrection and encourage outlawry, thievery and murder, mur-der, instead of industry and peace. The president said he believed in the sincerity of the Carranza envoys in promising various government reforms. Among them were the allotment of land to discharged soldiers, the enfranchisement enfranchise-ment of the peons from conditions of employment which reduced them practically practi-cally to serfdom, and the establishment establish-ment of an equitable system of taxation. taxa-tion. Will Not Intervene. Several times the president made it clear that the United States government govern-ment would never intervene in Mexico. Tho Mexican problem was for the Mexican Mexi-can people to solve, he said. The Carranza Car-ranza readers, he understood, were seeking seek-ing to establish the principles of American Ameri-can liberty. Accordingly it was for the United States to co-operate so far as possible. Information that foreign governments govern-ments were preparing to hold the United Unit-ed States responsible for the destruction of life and property under the Carranza regime came from stale department sources. it was learned, for example, that Germany has instructed its consuls and other officials in Mexico to advise Germans Ger-mans to take no individual action against the Carranzistaa. They were to inform all Germans that their claims would be presented to the United States iu one great bill .by the German government. govern-ment. Putting aside for one hour his own cares and his vigil at the bedside of his sister, who is dying here, Mr. Wilson exchansed calls with General Cnrranzas representatives. represen-tatives. It was the first time during his administration that the executive liad dealt personally with a representative of the Mexican de facto government, and the significance of this fact was not lost upon either the American or Mexican commissioners. com-missioners. Wilson Talks. For the first time also representatives of General Carranza received directly from the num in whose hands perhaps lies the fate of their country his statement of sympathy vsith tha aims of the revolution revolu-tion which lias torn Mexico. The regeneration of the stricken nation must come from wUhln, Mr. Wilson said; and, in answer for his colleagues and himself. him-self. Luis Cabrera, CarriLnza's minister of finance and chairman of the Mexican delegation, asserted that his country was struggling toward the light of free and democratic government. The meeting was arranged when the president arrived yesterday, summoned to the bedside of his strh ken relative. Mrs. Annie K. Howe. A message of sympathy from Mr. Cabrera and his assormtf-s w;is carried to Mr. Wilson by Secretary Lane, chairman of the American commission. The message contained the hope also that the Mexican representatives might pd.y their respects to the president in person before they returned home. Visit Mayflower. The executive signified his wish to meet the Mexican delegates at once. During such hours as the president is absent from his sister's room he Is living aboard the naval yaht Mayflower, and it was arranged that the three Mexican commissioners com-missioners could pay their visit aboard the snip. Accompanied by the three American (Continued on Page Eight.) WM MEETS WITH BGIIDER MEDMTDBS (Continued from Page One.) delegates, the Mexican part v was taken to tiie Mayflower in a navy launch that bad been placed at t be service of the joint body. The visitors were received with full naval honors except that Lhe salute was omitted. A brief exchange of greetings took place in the president's salon, Secretary Lane introducing bis Mexican Mex-ican conferees. Within fifteen minutes after the Mexican Mexi-can commissioners had returned to the hotel where the conferences are taking place, the president's barge conveyed the executive from the Muvriouer on a return visit. At the hotel pier be whs met by Secretary Sec-retary Ijfiiie. Judge Gray and John R. Mott. the American commissioners, and escorted to a great sun parlm. where the Mexican representatives awaited him. For half ah hour the president and the six commissioners chatted informally. Mrs-Wilson Mrs-Wilson in the barge awaited her husband's : return. The president went directlv to thevsub-ject thevsub-ject of the Mexican revolution. He was. lie said, more f am Ilia r t ban bis hearers perhaps reillz?d with the I unda mental principles of the struggle lor tree Liovurn-ment Liovurn-ment In Mexico. He assured tnem ui his deep sympathy with those alms, adding that all right-thinking men must sympathize sym-pathize with such high aspirations. ! During the conversation Mr. Wilson Indicated In-dicated his comprehension of the great .problems political, economic and social which Mexico is facing. In this co'mcc-tion co'mcc-tion lie said that regeneration mmu come : from within and t hat development must be parallel in all three lines. ! Mr. Cabrera, in bis reply, referred to the L"nlted( States us leader of the movement move-ment for free government and as the tutor to whom Mexico must look in striving for 1 the type of government Its people sought. Much had been done, he said. bu1 much also remained to be accomplished before the aims of the revolution could be achieved. In the morning hours, before the exchange ex-change of visits, the joint commission con-! con-! sidered reports submitted by tiie Mexican i members as to the political events which brought their de facto government into i power. In effect, the story which t hey are presenting is that of Cnrranza's little lit-tle with Villa and Zapata, for it begins ; with the Agua Calient es convention of : military leaders of the revolution in 1314, the failure of which to provide a satisfactory satisfac-tory form of civil government was followed by the new civil war. ! The commission will resume deliberations delibera-tions tomorrow and probably will continue : he review of Mexican politics. Major Gen- eral Tasker H. Bliss, assistant chief of stuff of the army, who has been summoned sum-moned by Secretary Lane for a conference with the- American commissioners, is expected ex-pected to arrive here tomorrow. It is regarded re-garded as likely that the commission will again discuss the immediate border situation situa-tion after his opinions and information have been obtained. |
