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Show FIRST CHIEF STANDS UPON HIS DIGNITY CARRANZA MAKES BID FOR RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. Issues an Order That All Communications Communi-cations to His Government From Outside Sources Must Pass Through Him. Washington. General Venustiano Carranza, as first chief of the constitutional consti-tutional army, notified the world on Sunday that all communications to his government from outside sources must pass through him. If directed to any general, he said, they must be referred re-ferred to him, anyhow. Carranza's decree reached Washington through' Rafael Zubaran Capmany, his minister minis-ter of the interior, who telegraphed it to Eliseo Arredondo, Carranza's local lo-cal representative. The order apparently will make it impossible for diplomatic representatives representa-tives of foreign governments to deal with the Carranza government, except ex-cept by going to Vera Cruz, which they have been unwilling to do, lest such action be construed as formal recognition. Already most of the diplomats dip-lomats at Mexico City have asked their governments for permission to leave when the situation becomes intolerable in-tolerable and some of them have been advised to use their own discretion. The order may -affect the activity of American consular representatives, who heretofore have dealt with the de facto government whatever it happened happen-ed to be. |