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Show BON REJECTS PEACE PROPOSALS SPURNS OVERTURES BY MEXICAN CONVENTION TO BRING ABOUT INTERNATIONAL PEACE Declares He Will Not Lay Aside His Sword So Long as the Country Has .Not Been Purged of All Her Enemies. San Antonio, Texas. General Al-varo Al-varo Obregon has declined peace overtures over-tures offered -by the Mexican conven-tion conven-tion here on Saturday, which asked the warring leaders to consider a plan for the cessation of hostilities. Obregon, Obre-gon, who holds Mexico City for the Carranza faction, was the first leader to reply. His telegraphic message, received by Frederico Gaiaboa, former minister minis-ter in Huerta's cabinet, who was named chairman of the permanent committee of the convention, follows: "I have received the message which was sent inviting us in the name of a group of Mexican refugees there, to drop our arms. Those who have the valor to offer blood for the republic do not put down their arms. We will not put down our arms while there yet have not disappeared from our sacred soil the traitors who sell out to the reactionary party to sink our revolutionary principles. "If each of you, in place of Ibeing refugees in a foreign country, would, take a rifle and apply it for your party, your labor would be more effec. tive, and you would have;, at least, the honor of toeing called citizens." |