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Show MEXICAN CHIEFS REPLY TO WILSON GENERAL CARRANZA ASKS FOR SUPPORT OF HIS ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRA-TION BY AMERICANS. ViHa Says Note is an Admission That United States Has No Right to Take Part in Settlement of Mexican Affairs. Washington. President Wilson had before him Saturday .night the first reply to his recent statement regarding regard-ing Mexico. It consisted of a "proclamation "proc-lamation to the people" issued Friday by General Carranza, asserting the right of the constitutionalist government govern-ment to recognition by the United States and other foreign governments. Lack of recognition is declared to be the one difficulty remaining in the way of restoring constitutional government gov-ernment in Mexico. The statement asserts: as-serts: "At this time we believe ourselves to be in a position to overcome this last difficulty because the constitutionalist constitu-tionalist government is now actually in definite possession of sovereignty and the legitimate exercise of sovereignty sov-ereignty is the essential condition which should be taken into account when deciding upon recognition of a government." A dispatch from El Paso, Texas, say that General Francisco Villa on Saturday replied to President Wilson's Wil-son's recent note calling upon leaders of factions in Mexico to take steps to establish a stable government. The Villa note was dated Aguas Calientes, June 10, and was forwarded to Enrique En-rique C. Llorente, Villa representative representa-tive at Washington, for presentation to the state department. President Wilson's "high spirit of justice" and the "consideration and respect" in which he is held in the United States and Mexico, General Villa said, impels him to send his reply, re-ply, which interprets Wilson's note as a recognition that the United States government has no right to take part in the settlement of the international affairs of Mexico. The Villa note reviews the overthrow over-throw of the Victoriano Huerta regime re-gime and attributes the subsequent division among constitutionalist leaders lead-ers to "false ideas, for mercenary purposes, pur-poses, diffused by those who sought to retain power indefinitely without laws." Villa's break with Carranza is attributed to Venustiano Carranza and the resulting strife is characterized character-ized as "civil war, such as might occur oc-cur in any nation." |