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Show HUERTA CHARGES MEDIATORS WITH FRAUD ATTEMPTS Mexican Dictator Complicates Peace ., Negotiations by Giving Publicity to His Claims Niagara Falls, Ont., June 17. The Huerta delegation to the mediation conference Issued a statement tonight charging that the Insistence by the. United States on a constitutionalist for the provisional presidency as op posed to a "neutral" was "tautaimnmt to abetting, and even exacting, fraud and violence at -tho elections." The publication of this "statement was unexpected un-expected by the American delegates. When they learned of It their attitude was that the Huerta delegates weie acting ontlrely within their rights when they criticised the American plan for establishment of a provisional provision-al government In a communication addressed to tho Americans themselves, them-selves, but they were greatly surprised surpris-ed by tho Mexican delegates' action In giving it out. Tho Mexican statement outllnos tho substance of a memorandum Unt ed June 12, which tho Huerta delegates dele-gates gavo to tho American delegation delega-tion and to which the latter havo slnco replied. Tho preface of tho statement explained ex-plained that publication tonight was made becauso knowledge of tho criticism crit-icism nlready had reachced representatives represen-tatives of the prCBS. |