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Show I WAR NEWS-SEEMS TO fl BE LESS EXCITING - j If "" . J Important Developments Afford 8ome ! I jF Relief In International Conflict ' I With. Mexico Mi M J Washington, D C, May 13. With Plans for tho Mexican mediation con- k jr , jfcronco at Niagara Falls, Ont., next f I -week rapidly maturing tension of tho . ' Interntiticnal conflict was relieved , somewhat today by soveral Important ' 1 1 dovolopmcnts, l Assurances reached this govern- If ment that no ammunition had been II lnnded at Moxlcan ports from Ger-. II man ships, a mutter that had been fcl romewhat In doubt since, tho dopar- I v -ture of tho Kron I'rlncessln Cecllo J 1 1 from Puerto Moxlco sovoral days ago J From tho French legation In Moxi- ico City, camo posltlvo information ;' that tho American vice consul John, It. Stlllman, who had been hclfl prls- onor by Moxlcan federals at Saltltlo, was actually on his way to Moxlco j City under guard to bo turned over ; to tho Brazilian minister thcro, who would gunrantco his safety until ho reaches Vera Cruz. Concern Over Orderly Concern was aroused, however, over ov-er tho reported execution by Moxlcan federals of Samuel I'arks, nn Amerl-t Amerl-t enn orderly, who disappeared from Vera Cruz sovoral days ago on ac-Ileved ac-Ileved to havo been doranged on nc-j nc-j count of tho excessive heat. Unofll- clal reports persist that Parks was executed, but General Funston has communicated nothing ofhc'al con- cernlug him, except his disappear- j ' anco. SSocretary of War Garrison today directed General Funston to ask the Moxlcan commander, General Maas, ' for Information about Parks. In somo quarters It was said serious complications compli-cations might arise if it proved true Parks was executed. Socrctury Bryan mado It clear today to-day this government would welcome a return of Moxlcan lighthouse tenders tend-ers to tho light on Lobos Island, which had been abandoned and which American naval forces seized for tho benefit of navigation. This govern-, ment, It was reasserted, did not consider con-sider tho manning of tho lighthouse, nn net of war, but would contlnuo to operate tho light unless Huorta sends h Mexican forco back there. Dodge to be Secretary i It was announced that H. rcrclvaf Dodge, former minister to Panama, had been selected as secretary to tho American delegates at tho mediation conference. Mr. Dodgo Is a Harvard man, 44 years old, born In Doston and a graduate of Harvard law school. Ho was third secretary of tho Amor-lean Amor-lean embassy at Berlin In 1899 and I advanced rapidly to second mid first socrotary at Ilcrlln. He was transferred trans-ferred to tho embassy1 at Toklo In 190G and rccolvcd his first appointment appoint-ment as a minister In 1907, going to Honduras and Salvador, then & joint mission. |