Show FAIL TO WE att A FIRST E 1 11 S T conference MEXICANS DEMAND IMMEDIATE withdrawal OF TROOPS IN PURSUIT OF VILLA representatives of mexican govern ment told that if evacuation la Is insisted upon the conference would go into a deadlock el paso texas two conflicting propositions developed immediately after the beginning la in the Ble mexican customs house in juarez lato late satur duy ot of tho the conference confer enco to decide hie the future disposition of the american ex forces in mexico thoy they are understood temporarily to have increased the tile gravity of the ne no i the initial meeting was held behind closed doors in the big green tinted room which francisco villa used as his council chamber when he lie dominated northern mexico and juarez waa was hia his headquarters generals hugh 1 L scott and frederick Fun funston stort represented tt e united states the mexican con ferbes were general alvaro obregon Alex mexican ican minister of 0 war and general jacinto trevino mill military commander of the northeast district of mexico the progress of the negotiations waa was mot not divulged but from ar authoritative source two things were learned first that the mexican representatives reiterated tho the wish expressed in general C recent note to the washington government that the american troops should be with withdrawn dramn from Alex mexican ican soil at an early date second that they were informed by the american officials that the latter were not empowered to discuss the withdrawal of general col cot dumns it Is understood the american depre senta tives told tho tile mexican conferees that if the do facto government in alsted on nn an american evacuation the conference would go into a deadlock and the whole matter would revert to a diplomatic discussion between washington and mexico city the mexicans further were informed that the purpose of the present conference so tar far as the united stated Is concerned la is the development of a specific plan for the operation cooperation co of the tile american and de do facto armies in wip ing out the bandit groups that have spilled so much blood along the border and bavo havo repeatedly taken american life in tho the interior of mexico it la Is understood that general obre gon tho the mexican minister of war prior to tho the conference openly expressed a disinclination to discuss any other sub eject than withdrawal and that ho lie carried this attitude into the initial meet ing |