Show miens m POLITE declination REFUSES TO participate IN convention TO WHICH VILLA IS A PARTY declares that functions of public service have been restored and that soon the entire country will be at peace vera cruz general venustiano Venust lano car ranza s reply to the appeal of the united states and the latin amer lean countries for a conference be tween the leaders of the various mex lean factions having in view an ad of mexico s internecine struggle Is a polite but unequivocal no in a note issued by foreign minis ter acuna and handed to J R salli man president Wll sons re presenta alve in mexico at noon on friday general carranza told the diplomats that he can permit no interference whatever by foreign governments he explained that he Is in control now of all mexico except the states of achl and AIo and a part of the state of sonora the signers of the note to carranza are invited to come themselves or to send representatives to some point along the rio grande for a conference at which the affairs of mexico may be discussed solely from an international point of view and with the idea that carranza s gov eminent be recognized as the de facto government in mexico the diplomats are told in the note that the first chief of the constitution alises now commands an army of men that the functions of public service have been restored the rail ways repaired and railway traffic re burned the note adds that in the fields and the cities there have been reborn the activities of normal life stress Is laid in the note on the as bertlon that soon the entire country will be at peace the reply insists that the first chief s actuated by the highest motives in declining to participate in the confer ence it is stated in the note that the fact that the revolutionists had en into a pact at juarez with the old government was one of the weak nesses of president francisco I 1 ma dero s arrangement tor the alon of mexico and that this alleged trafficking with the opposition was one of the reasons for the disagreements that culminated in the tragic battle in mexico city in february 1913 |