Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-05-26 | Page 6 | Zapata Sends Agent to Call on Bryan

ATA SENDS AGENT ii is Aa 4 TO CHI CAll 1 ON ONi 1 i BRYAN BOYAN I n t tre it P I re rS S YI s His Chief Isn't Bad l' l fv r Man but T Trying in to toBe 4 Be Good i t t lj J s WASHINGTON w S ING N. N May 1111 26 An 6 An agent of ot General Zapata and nd tho the junta i in chug chargo of ot the Zapata movement mO In central and And southern Mexico Is s here and end andI I at the suggestion of ot Secretary Bryan aryan an has hu laid before Pr President Wilson and and- the Ule i t state stat department Information Intended to controvert ert statements that apata la Is merely merel a ban bandit lt and that his followers k are aNI a horde hordo of ot freebooters r rt Tho agent submitted to Mr Bryan Brjan a aJ at t J statement of or orth th the Ideals Ideal program am and plan j of or campaign of Za Zapata ta his followers tho the tren strength th of or his forces and tho the extent 1 of territory o er which he be IC claims con con- trot and asked a that In any se settlement dement o oCI of oC 1 I the Mexican problem full consideration be beI I given gI n to the as a leading element ele ele- went ment In n the Mexican revolution The Z base ase their pretensions pretension onan on I an Assertion that thc represent the tho ther r ret rev I movement in the most thickly portion of ot Mexico containing 75 5 I per Der cent ent of ot all ail the population Zapata 1 the tho agent Informed Secretary Bryan has hasan hasan an enn army anny of about The emissary I ensured Mr Ir Bryan that Zapata and hi hl i followers would observe all aU tho tho- rules of ot oft I t civilized oo warfare Discussing Discussing- the rel relations relation of DC Zapata tc to tp 1 1 Carranza the agent In tho memoranda 3 presented said Sald that tho two o elements element I I f while not united have tho the same samo ends and purposes ea and were working in concert