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Show WILL BE NO WAR SAYS CARRANZA MEXICO AND UNITED STATES NOW ON GOOD TERMS, SAYS DE FACTO RULER. General Amnesty to be Proclaimed When Order is Established in Mexico and Many Reforms to be Instituted. Mexico City. General Carranza in an interview Friday said that the status stat-us of the negotiations with Washington Washing-ton was very satisfactory as the result re-sult of the good will shown to each other by Mexico and the United States. "Thanks to this feeling of good will," the first chief continued, "we will be able to avoid war. War is something some-thing I do not desire, but if there were no other remedy for the situation I would enter upon it." General Carranza, however, refused to discuss the situation as it related to the possible action of President Wilson or of the Latin-American nations na-tions -which offered to mediate in the trouble between the United States and Mexico. Within a short time, the first chief said, there would be incorporated incorporat-ed in the constitution of Mexico all the reforms which now find a place in the program of the constitutionalists. In a large measure, he declared, some of these reforms already are in operations opera-tions and there remains only their incorporation in-corporation into the fundamental laws of the country. The presidential election, Carranza Baid, would take place as soon as the work of reconstructing the constitution had been completed and when the country was at peace. The de facto government, the first chief asserted, will pass a law of ara-aesty, ara-aesty, so that all Mexicans who have left the country for one reason or another an-other can return if they desire. Such a law, however, he said, would not be promulgated as long as the government govern-ment was not on a firm basis, because among some of the Mexicans now living liv-ing abroad there are those who would return to Mexico to conduct agitations and disturb labor conditions. "As for myself, personally, I do not care," General Carranza declared, "but do care, of course, for the government govern-ment and the country. The work of bringing about the political reconstruction reconstruc-tion of Mexico is most difficult and must be carried forward under peaceful peace-ful conditions. Let these Mexicans -ho are disturbers stay where they are until such time as the country has a constitution and a government. Then they can return and work." |