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Show EMBASSADOR WILSON IS ORDERED TO WASHINGTON Believed to Indicate Action as to Mexico Order to American Representative in Mexico City la Issued After Conference Between President Wilson and Secretary Bryan; Impression General Gen-eral That This Action Is Due to the Suggestion of a European Power That the United States Define its Position in Reference to the Civil War Raging in the Republic to the South. MEXICO CITY, Mexico, July 16 Embassador Henry Lane Wilson leaves bare for Washington tonight in response to orders from the state department. WASHINGTON, July 16. President Wilson today, after an early conference with Secretary of State Bryan over the latest aspects of the Mexican situation presented pre-sented by the inquiries of foreign powers as to the attitude atti-tude of the United States, ordered Embassador Henry Lane Wilson at Mexico City to proceed to Washington immediately for a conference. Secretary of State Bryan in communicating with the embassador said President Wilson wished him to make a personal report of the conditions in Mexico. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, secretary of the embassy, will be left in charge. Embassador Wilson will hurry north on either the battleship Michigan or Louisiana from Vera Cruz, if any delay would be entailed by waiting for a commercial steamer. Officials here believe that the almost total interruption in-terruption of railroad traffic between Mexico' City and the United States will force the embassador to make his trip by water. He is not expected here before July 24 at the earliest. matie circles that aa important aa aeoncssaanl ef the attitude of the United States la the pending situation will follow the embassador's confer eneee with the presideat aad Secretary of State Bryan. The president 's aotioe today, following closely onsaaSteliil powers which already have rsjooarninod the Hnerta government were sa-essrlsg for some indication of this govern teat's attitude toward the continued ' disorders is Mexico, lead, to that belief. 1 Secretary Bryan positively declined to add any information to his brief announcement of Embassador WUaaa's call to Washington. Want Embassador's Story First Hen. However, it is assumed that the administration ad-ministration desires to leara from the embassador directly what tafia saoss actuated the foreign diplomatic representatives repre-sentatives in Mexico whan they jointly agreed to address their governments with what amounted to formal complaint com-plaint against the attitude of the) United Unit-ed States in its relations with the Huerta regime. President Wilson has kspt aa open mind on the subject and is thought to feel himself bound to adhere ad-here to the policy be announced early la his administration of lending moral ea-eouragement ea-eouragement only to such governments in Latin -Ameriee at were founded ea constitutional law aad praetioe. It Is understood that ha is ready to give das weight to any representations Embassador Embassa-dor Wilson may ears to make. The president has had the beaeSt ef yi private reports from several ef his personal per-sonal friends who have traveled in Mexico Mex-ico recently, but those were unofficial aad aot suJtcisat to form the baato ef j (Continued on last page.) EMRASSADOR WILSON (Continued from page 1.) . formal attitude If there were to be amy change ia policy. Bryan May Cancel Lecture Data. Secretary, Bryan was asked if the coming of Embassador Wilson to Washington Wash-ington would change his projected lecture lec-ture tour. He replied: "Tha newspapers might have assumed as-sumed that my lecture datee would not interfere with business, instead of assuming as-suming that they would. All my lecture lec-ture dates ware made subject to cancellation." cancel-lation." Senator Fall has informally notified the foreign relations committee that he intends to ask the seaate to discharge it from further consideration of his bill to repeal the nentrality statute of 1913, under which the Huerta government now is importing munitions of war, while they are denied to the constitutionalist. constitu-tionalist. He will ask the senate to pas it. REBELS ANXIOUS TO PREVENT FOREIGN INTERVENTION DOUGLAS, Aria.. July 1. Advices that foreign governments wers bringing pressure to bear at Washington to Induce In-duce the United 8tatee to Interfere In Mexico created considerable apprehension apprehen-sion among tha constitutionalist government govern-ment officiate of Sonora today, and caused them to Issue a statement that the rebela throughout Mexico have al-waye al-waye treated Americans with tbe highest high-est respect. The constitutionalist representatives on this side of ths boundary said that their greatest desire was to prevent foreign for-eign Intervention. 'Wi submitted to the temporary defeat de-feat involved In Obregon's retirement from Ouaymas at the request of the foreign consuls," said one leader today. "Huerta Is losing and wants to force Intervention. Ws do not." CARRANZA WIRES WASHINGTON EAGLE PASS. Texaa. July 1. Urging that tha constitutionalists in Mexico be granted rights of belligerents by the United States government. Governor Car-ransa. Car-ransa. their leader, wired a long protest to Washington today against recognition of Provisional President Huerta. The protest was to bs presented by the constitutionalist con-stitutionalist diplomatic agent to officials in Washington. Carransa contends that the majority of Mexicans favor him. and that If hs were granted belligerent rights he soon could get control of the government. |