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Show FOUR STRUGGLING FOR SMCY CARRANZA, VILLA, GUTIERREZ AND GONZALES ASPIRE TO PRESIDENCY OF MEXICO. A Fifth Leader May Enter the Race, It Being Predicted That Republic Will Again be the Scene of Disastrous War. Washington. Four revolutionary leaders, each with an eager army at his back, are struggling for the presidency presi-dency of Mexico. These- dictators, at least In their own camps, are General Carranza, who on Saturday officially proclaimed Vera ruz the capital of Mexico; General Gutierrez, holding the office of provisional president by grace of the Aguas Calientes convention; conven-tion; General Villa and General Pablo Gonzales, who is announced Sunday in state department dispatches from Aguas Calientes as a new candidate. A fifth leader who has not officially proclaimed himself as yet for the supreme su-preme power is General Zapata, with the advantage of being in control of the national capital. His troops are policing the town and he is said to be just within the Buburbs with his headquarters. head-quarters. General Carranza is reported to have ordered 2,000 troops from Vera Cruz to Tampico. There, it is said, a defection de-fection exists among the Carranzistas who hold tbe port. Carranza has obtained ob-tained control of the four Mexican gunboats at Vera Cruz. These boats were practically out of commission during the Huerta regime and were not allowed to go from port to port. Now it is expected that the four gunboats will be utilized to bring Car-ranza's Car-ranza's reinforcements to Tampico, which -has suddenly become a storm center and where European nations again ask the protection of the United States for their oil property and citizens. citi-zens. That Carranza is about to demand that this government shall remove the American vessels from Mexican waters is known to the state department. depart-ment. But the demand has not yet arrived here in official form. |