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Show DIPLOMATS 0ECI0E j 10 MJEESS MEDIATORS SUSPEND WORK AT NIAGARA FALLS, ANNOUNCING THAT CHIEF WORK IS DONE. Probable That Last Formal Meeting Has Been Held, Business Hereafter to be Transacted From the Homes of Mediators and Delegates. Niagara Falls. An indefinite recess of mediation was decided upon Tuesday Tues-day by Ambassador Da Ganui of Brazil Bra-zil and ministers Suarez and Naom of Chile and Argentina respectively. This action followed the receipt of a note from General Caxranza expressing ex-pressing an inclination to participate In informal conferences with Huerta delegates for the solution of Mexico's Internal problems, but asking for more time in which to consult his subordinate subordi-nate generals. The mediators explained that mediation medi-ation had not adjourned, but that perhaps per-haps the last formal meeting had been held. Communication hereafter will be carried on by telegraph from the respective homes of the mediators said delegates. Ambassador Da Gama pointed, out that th mediation of a boundary dispute between Ecuador find Peru, in -which the United States and Brazil had tendered their good offices in 1910, -was still in progress. A mediation board, he explained, la not like an international conference, with, a definite time for meeting and adjourning and a fixed program. Mediation Me-diation chiefly offers advice to parties at conflict and devises a means for the composition of international delegates. dele-gates. The mediators consider that their chief work has been done. They have drawn up a series of protocols setting set-ting forth the conditions under which the United States will recognize a new government. When a satisfactory government is established American forces will be withdrawn and both international and national internal problems solved simultaneously. Originally rhe three diplomats tendered ten-dered their good offices to avert war. This, they think, has been accomplished. accom-plished. In the acceptance by the United States of their tender of good offices, hope was expressed by Secretary Sec-retary Bryan that the "several elements" ele-ments" in Mexico might be brought together and the country pacified. The three envoys think that in devising de-vising the plan for informal conferences confer-ences between the two factions their own task is ended and that the responsibility re-sponsibility for the completion of the peace program rests on the Mexicans themselves. |