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Show mm charge is confident I t; OF ACCESSION TO L!. S. DEMAND Overtures Made By Mexican Minister of Interior to Nelson 4 Jk O'Shaughnessy Further Conference Late Today Reft Re-ft garding Ideas of Washington Detailed Informa-11 Informa-11 tion Not Given Out. Mexico City Nov 14. Confidence to2 In' the earh accomplishment of Ihe aim of the United States toward Mexico was expressed toda by Nelson Nel-son O'Shaughnessy. American charge y. d'affaires. The overtures made by the Mex- mlT Iran minister of th- interior. Manuel Garza Aldalpe. yesterday, are taken as evidence that Huerta is ready to recede from the stand he had pre- Jzjl vlously taken. Although Mr. O'Shaughnessy was i-. uncommunicative on the subject ami refuse,! i, formation as to an phase r"1! of the l.-uesr dev elopment. It was un- der-n.l thai he expected to have a f,; -:),- r rnhfereroe w-ih Aldalpe late ted.' . . , this conference It is expected that the ideas of Washington a to :tfe- ' t r. - ! of Ir.hn l.in. I re'.irninK from Vera Cruz to the federal capital or receiving a committee represent inc Provisional President Huerta. will I be known to the representative ot th provisional president Dispatches from Washington pub-K pub-K llfibed here today Indicating the prob-t prob-t I tbilit) of a settlement of the Mex- Iran Question without resort to arm. uhirh dunna the l.-w week appeared I here to be a forlorn hope, created I an atmosphere of optimism and V 1 greatly relieved the tension Great Britain Announces Policy. London. Nov 14 In reply to President Wilson's communication "'. announcing his determination to elim- c Inate General Huerta and his adher " M ent-i from power in Mexico. Great ' Britain today answered formally through Ambassador Waiter H. Page that her policy was strictly one of i c .. interference t It is understood that the other Mi Euro,'., an power have seiu replies m I sinnl .r to thai or Gre.t Britain after exchanging views w hich It was Ull- derstood Washington desired they Ehould do President Wilson's note to the I powers while it stated very clearly J his intention to god rid of Huerta. . .Jul not. 1 1 Is understood, include any ZZZL outline as to how be expected to ac pccompllsh that object in case Huer-Ulj Huer-Ulj ', ia should remain debf to persuasion Intervention Must Follow. II As an official pointed out today however, "it is not difficult to fore i ca6t what would happen should Gen-f Gen-f eral Huerta nor voluntarily withdraw and the financial pressure and the blockade of the Mexican ports prove 1 Ineffective Intervention must fol tani low ." It le expected that President Wilson Wil-son will continue to communicate to the powers the successive steps of the United States government. So far :ih ,;rea' Britain Is concerned, It is pointed out that he may rely on her reply being the same In each case namely noninterference. - Washington. D C. Nov 14. Satis faction over the attitude of Great Britain was the chief basis for a feel ing of optimism that enveloped the Mexican situation in official circles today to-day It became known that there had Hjjj been the frankeBt interchange of views between the United States and England not onl through Ambassa dor Page abroad, but in Washington a6 well. ISlr William Tyrell. private secretary to Sir Edward Grey the British sec-retarv sec-retarv during the llluess of the British Brit-ish ambassador. Sir Cecil Spring-Rico, has been active in getting the Amen can viewpoint and ie believed to have been largely instrumental in the promotion pro-motion of a friendly understanding, , between london and Washington. 14 It is thought also that the inter B- change of views with the United States has been known to the British representative In Mexico City. Negates, Sonora Nov 14. Culia- can capital of Slnaola, was captured bv Constitutionalists at 3 o'clock H lbs morning This was announced today at military headquarters here A In a telegram from General Alvaro Obregon, who was commander of the insurgent forces In the assault on Culiacan the Con- XVi stitutlonaJist lews was 20 killed and f; I 80 wounded, according to the figures tjV i given hy General Obregon who hlm-"TT hlm-"TT V pelf was slightly wounded The as-Jj as-Jj eault was made at 3 o'clock this morning Obregon confirmed the death of , I Colonel Garmendia. formerly a regu-I regu-I lar army officer and the man who jif shot down the army colonel who at-t at-t tempted to arrest President Madero fA E during the Felix Diaz uprising in V Mexico City The troops and townspeople here celebrated with much noise the news that Culiacan had been captured Culiacan is the capital of the state adjoining Sonora on the Pacific coast to the south Already the Insurgents In-surgents hold C-uliacan's 6eaport. This leaves Mazatlan. 1he principal eeaport and metropolis of Slnaola and r Guaymas. the California gulf port of 1 Slnaola the only importaut points on the west coast still held by the federals. fed-erals. General Obregon merely reported that the federal defenders of Culla-I Culla-I can had fled and were being fol-" fol-" lowed by insurgent columns. He did S not state the federal loss. Mazatlan is now the only city In rtnaola remaining In the hands of - the federals. Washington, L C . Nov. 14. Secre jM tar,- Brvan exchanged message early V today with Charge O'Shaushnessy IK about the reported concessions which members of Huerta s official family have Intimated he would make to the United States Efforts to recall John Lind from Vera Cruz to Mexico C ity to discuss the American memorandum demanding demand-ing that the new Mexican congress should not convene, were taken here to indicate that the group surrounding surround-ing Huerta would suggest a compromise compro-mise arrangement whereby the neu Mexican mnuress would meet, but no: pass on concessions or other meas ures contemplated to continue Huerta in power Officials were 9ileut about the inner in-ner negotiations but were optimistic optimis-tic It would not surprise officials here if an announcement of Huer-Ul'B Huer-Ul'B Intention to resign were withheld Until satisfactory arrangements could bp made for the choice or a provision al successor acceptable to the Constitutionalists. Consti-tutionalists. While the United States might refrain re-frain from making anv suggestions of ' Its own. it would endeavor to act as a medium of communication through William Bayard Hale with General Oarransa and Charge O'Shaughnessy. at Mexico City, so that there might I be an exchange of views on various names. There was a report cariy today thai foreign Minister Moheno might be the man selected though the views of tho Constitutionalists as to Moheno's ac-ceptibllity ac-ceptibllity were not known. Secretary Bryan declared today that none of the instructions to John Lind contained any statement of the alternative alter-native the United States would pursue pur-sue in the event of Huerta's failure to meet this government's demands lor his retirement. Mr Bryan made this statement In response to inquiry as to the truth of a recent report from Vera Cruz that Mr. I.lnd had delivered deliv-ered a note to General Huerta informing in-forming him that if he had not abdl cated the presidency by tomorrow noon, the United States would blockade block-ade Mexican ports. Mr. Bryan likewise declined to say what course of action the United States would pursue if the Mexican congress Is convened tomorrow In the face of representations by thl6 gov- I eminent that it will not recognize any of the body's acts as legal. Federals Attack Victoria Brownsville. Nov 14. An attack on Victoria, capital of Tamaullpas, hat1 been started by the Constitutionalist gi q ral. Pablo Gonzales, according lo General Jesus Carrama, who arrived here today. Carranza said the attackers at-tackers Include 7000 men. 28 machine guns and 14 cannons. Jesus Carranza will make his bead-j quarters at Matamorcs |