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Show IfiTWLL PLAT OUTJHE GAME DECLARES THAT IT IS A CASE OF LIFE OR DEATH WITH HIM, AND HE WILL NOT RESIGN. Drives From His Cabinet One of the Minister Who Advised His Abdication Abdi-cation and Advocated Abandonment Abandon-ment of Power. Mexico City. What doubt remained regarding General Huerta' intentions with respect to compliance with the American demands for his own elimination elimi-nation was removed from the minds of most Mexicans and foreign residents resi-dents by bis peremptory dismissal on Sunday of Manuel Garza Aldape, the minister of the Interior, who was look- ' d upon as the head of Huerta's Cabinet Cabi-net Manuel Garza Aldape led that group of the cabinet which held the con- i vlctlon that It would be beet to ac- cede to that portion at least of Wash- ington'a demands which meant the to- ' Lai abandonment of power by the pro- 1 visional president, and he la said to have been the only one with sufficient 1 courage to discuss the international 1 situation frankly with his chief. f : It waa he who called at the A-meri- ran embassy recently and Induced 1 Nelson O'Shaughnessy. the charge d'affaires, to send to Washington his appeal for the reopening of the Derogations, Dero-gations, fienor Aldape's resignation 1 waa demanded at a cabinet meeting 1 at President Huerta's house early 1 Sunday morning. Huerta ia said to have reiterated at this meeting the 1 statement that be would not resign, 1 that with him it was a case of life 1 or death, and be was disposed to play 1 out the game. Certain Intimate friends of General Huerta have been Indicating to h!m for some time, It Is said, that the mln- ' later of the Interior was Intriguing j for the presidency and that the cabinet cabi-net had become divided into camps. These who opposed Aldape included Querido Moheno, minister of foreign . affairs, General lllanquet. minister of war. and Jose Mara Lozano, minister of femtnto. |