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Show FOREIGN ENVOYS TO QUIT MEXICO I Diplomatic Corps Planning to Withdraw I From Country and Leave Their Affairs m In Charge Consular Officers. Suggcs- m tion Cabled to European Government. j Washington, Feb. C Withdrawal B from Mexico City of many forolgn lo- H gatlons was' Imminent tonight bo- fl cause ol friction between tho Carran- H za government and the. diplomatic I corps. Somo of tho prominent dip- I lomatlo representatives of European countries already have cabled tho'..' H homo governments suggesting that inasmuch as communication ic grow-fl grow-fl lng more and more restricted and lit- tie respect is given them by tho H Carranza authorities, it might be ad-fl ad-fl lsable to unite with other govern-fl govern-fl ments In a movement to abandon all fl foreign legations in Mexico. fl As tho American embassy baa been fl closed slnco the rupture with tho j Huerta government, the action on H tho part of tho other diplomatic mis- fl slons is being considered without con- B suiting tho United States, so far as B Is known. B Would Sever Relation B The plan of tho dlplomatls corps fl 5n Moxlco City, which Is understood fl to bo acting as a unit, is to leave H affairs In Mexico in charge of con- B sular officers. This would mean B practically a severance of diplomatic B relations by all countries and present fl a unlquo status for Mexico In the family of nations. The situation in the Mexican capt-H capt-H tal has been replete with diplomatic H embarrassments since the rapid I changes In executlvo authority en-I en-I sued. Whon General Carranza, in H his capacity as first chief of the con I stitutlonal army, first abandoned Mex-fl Mex-fl lco City and moved his capital to Vera Cruz, he invited the diplomatic fl corps to accompany htm. The dlplo-B dlplo-B matte declined, asserting that such jfl a step might be construed as a rec-IB rec-IB ognltion of his government. Since (V then tho relations between them and itBfrv Carranza have not been cordial. fl" 8panlh Minister Menaced B Tho return of the Cafranza auth- B orlty to Mexico City, where General fl Obregon is In command now, has I developed into a menacing situation H because tho latter has threatened by B direction of Carranza to deport the B Spanish minister unless Angol De B Cnso, who claims to bo a confidential fl agent of tho Spanish government, Is B surrendered from his hiding place, In I tho Spanish legation. Ho Is accused B of complicity in tho Villa movement. B Somo of the embassies here tried B n faw days ago to commulcato with fl their missions in Moxlco City and fl had the cipher messages returned jfl to them. Slnco then thero has been B a modification of tho embargo on B code messages. B So far as Is known, tho City of B Mexico Is quiet. |