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Show JOINT CHASE PLAN OF MEXICAN CHIEF CARRANZA WOULD MAKE AGREEMENT AGREE-MENT TO PREVENT DANGER OF CONFLICT. Terms of Formal Convention Would be Designed to Meet All Questions Which May Arise in Future in Man Hunt. Washington. The de facto government govern-ment of Mexico has proposed to the United States the drafting of a protocol, proto-col, under which American and Mexican Mexi-can troops may co-operate in running to earth Francisco Villa and his bandits, ban-dits, without danger of misunderstanding misunderstand-ing or conflict. The terms or such a formal convention would be designed to meet all questions which may arise in the future, setting forth the rights of the American expeditionai y forces now in pursuit of the bandit chieftain and the nature of the co-operation expected ex-pected from the troops of the Carran xa government. These facts became known at the conclusion of a conference on Monday between Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador designate, and Acting Secretary Sec-retary Polk of the state department. Negotiations on the details will be in progress for several days, but the two governments are in agreement on the general principles involved. Meanwhile, however, the troops of the de facto government actually are co-operating with the American forces and, according to information received by the war department, are planning to render even greater assistance. High military officials allowed it to become known that the Carranza government gov-ernment had promised to move a large force of its troops from central Mexico to the north, forming a tra into which the American cavalrymen under General Pershing may chase Villa and his followers. |