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Show Taft Advises Them to Get Out of Mexico in ' - Case of Trouble .-.v -1 . ... 1 t. . j, Washington, March 2 At a cabinet conference today it was deemed cx-I cx-I pedient that President Taft Ihsuo a proclamation urging cltiens of the I United States to complj strlcth with the neutrality laws In all matters affecting af-fecting Mexico. In effect, tho proclamation procla-mation is a warning to Americans to slay out of Moxico. A note will be sent to American Ambnssador Wilson at Moxico City, dlrectlug him to inform in-form Americans located in Moxico to watch conditions closely, and it the situation grows alarming, to quit the country. Tho conference was attended by President Taft, Secretary Stimson. acting Secretary of State Wilson, Secretary Sec-retary Nagel and Postmaster General Hitchcock. Reports received at the state department todaj were meager , and consistCjd only of confirmatory advices on press reports telling of the killing of (ort revolutionists at Tor-1 Tor-1 roon by tho federals Quiet lb said to continue at Ensenda and tho situation situ-ation at Vera Cruz seems unchanged. N0 Disturbance at Chihuahua El Paso, Texas, .March 2 Communication Commun-ication over the railroad wires between be-tween Juarez and Chihuahua was restored re-stored today. Many telegrams wore received by railway officials and although al-though thoir contents wore not divulged, di-vulged, it was stated that there had been no disorder in Chihuahua. Preparations for the southward mooments of the insurrectos at Jua-re7. Jua-re7. were still incomplete today, they stnte that they do not expect to have to fight to take Chihuahua. Jose Morales Guerrero was apnoint-cd apnoint-cd consul at El Paso for Hie revolutionists revolu-tionists aud General Salazar sent a telegram to Washington asking that he be recognised officially bj the United States. Anarchy in Mexico. Washington, March 2. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts said at the White House today that the situation In Mexico was about as bad as it possibly pos-sibly could be. "Our interests in Mexico continue to protest against conditions there," said Mr Lodge. "There is no use shutting shut-ting our eyes to the fact that a state of anarchv exists there. I am against intervention and will oppose It, but still It is Just Jlke having a house afiiv next door." |