Show ViILA RULER OF MEXICO t I JI t I w I. I M 4 r 4 G i i 1 p fi j qI 3 r. r 1 i L 4 tr 41 pR 9 C iJO i r t c 1 F f F P c a r l Ha vAr f- f fw w iff I s T s f The world walled waited to learn what Gen Pancho Villa ex bandit would do when he reached Mexico City at tho the b head of of an army sufficient to hold the tho It was was feared he might announce himself himself him him- self as president and Immediately y overthrow overthrow over over- throw Acting President Gutierrez nut But Buthe he he did no nothing thIn of oC the kind Instead he be lived U up to the the character ho ha has assumed umed for more more- than a a year the tho character or patriot and IC leader when he Issued this statement My t ty only mission Is to lo restore order In Mexico and not to take taka personal re re- re enge on anyone anone I promise that orl order r will be restored at once I 11 am acting as aa tho iho subordinate of Provisional Pro President Gutierrez and tho the na national convention The provisional president is la now the supreme power In InIe Mexico Ie and I am merely act acting In ox as field commander of the t armies All AH foreigners and torel foreign n property prop prof- erty will 11 be protected Seldom before In the history of Qt rex Mex Mexico ico or any Latin American country had hada a conqueror been so modest Ho He might have ha taken tl the government Io In his hands without the loss Ios of at a n man Tet Yet the tho former ormer bandit held goof good to the promise ho he hR hurt had marie made months a ace n. n |