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Show WAR NEWS IS LESSJXCIUNG I Important Developments Af ford Some Relief in Inter- BH national Conflict With Mexico. Wmtr CONCERN OVER PARKi Kj Further Investigation Ordered RT Consul Silliman Report- K ed Safe Dodge to &; Serve Mediators. - Washington L C. May 13. With K?l plans for the Mexican mediation con- ference at Niagara FallB, Out., next K.-?- week, rapidly maturing, tension of m' the international conflict was relieved BTv somewhat today by several important , de elopment8. 1ft.' "-d Assurances reached this govern- HlV ment that no ammunition had been iHT. landed at Mexican ports from derraan tWv ships a matter that had been some- Br what In doubt since the departure of 'MP" the Kron Princessln Cecille from Pu- Br erio Mexico several days ago. igS I From the French legation in Mexico City came positive Information that iH-v- the American vice consul, John R. Sil- HR ; llman, who had been held prisoner by B' ' Mexican federals at Saltlllo. was actu- Wt ' ally on his way to Mexico City under WR cuard to he turned over to the Bra- IK z:lian minister there, who would guar- K antee his safety until he reaches Vera E Cruz. $ Concern Over Orderly. K Concern was aroused, how ever, over H the reported execution by Mexican B;, federals of Samuel Parks, an Amerl- can orderly who disappeared from K Vera Cruz several days asjo while op- Ileved to have been deranged on ae- E count of the excessive heat Unof- flcial reports persist that Parks was 'Xti executed but Ceneral Punston has E communicated nothing official con- w cerning him, except his disappearance 'R Secretary of War Garrison today dl- ;Ej rected General Punston to ask the B Mexican commander, General Maas, jE for Information about Parks In som W quarters it was said serious compiled- tiorrs might arise if it proved true f Parks was executed - Secretary Bryan mad It clear today KX this government would welcome a re- fin' turn of Mexican lighthouse tender BR to ihe light on Lobos island, which had been abandoned and which Ameri- E can naval forces seized for the benefit 1 of navigation. This government, it P,v- was reasserted, did not consider the E-manning E-manning of the lighthouse an act of war. but would continue to operate n-. the light unless Huerta sends a Mcxl- can force back there Kf Dodge to be Secretary. M 1 1 was announced that H Prcival ?. Dodge, former minister to Panama, a had been selected as secretary to the B American delecates at the mediation fig. conference. Mr. Podge is a Harvard man 41 years old born in Boston, and a graduate of Harvard law school He jt' was third secretary of the American K embassy at Berlin in 199 and ad- W tranced rapidly to second and first sec , retan at Berlin He was transferred f?' to the embassy at Tokio in 1906 and f received his first appointment as a i-minister i-minister in 1907. going to Honduras and Salvador, then a joint mission. V" |