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Show REPORT FROM, MEXICO BEFORE PREjJILSOfi President and Cabinet Await Call For Recognition From Rebel Leaders. NO LIGHT ON FLIGHT OF GEN. CARRANZA U. S. Destroyers Distributed Along Coast as a Precautionary Precau-tionary Measure. WASHINGTON, May 12 Official reports telling of the overthrow of President Carranza of Mexico were bo-fore bo-fore President Wilson and his cabinet today, but the now turn of events south of the border was understood to have been given only passing attention. Dispatches from navy officers and stato department representatives all have indicated thus far that assurances assuran-ces of protection to runcricans and other foreigners had been given by victorious loaders of tho revolutionary forces, and there was nothing of an emergency nnture in tho situation, officials of-ficials indicated, that called for action by the Washington government. The question of recognition of the new government gov-ernment apparently in process of formation for-mation in Mexico may arise soon. It was reported today that plans for asking ask-ing recognition wore being pressed by revolutionary leaders. No such request has yet been presented, however, and officials here believed there must bo considerable dovelopment in Mxico b forest could be forwarded with reasonable reas-onable expectation of acceptance. The fate of Carranza still remained in doubt Official advices threw no light on his present whereabouts. He was variously reported, unofficially, as prisoner and as a fugitive after escaping es-caping from the hands of his captors. The super-dreadnaught Oklahoma was en route from New York to Key West tonight but reports from Captain Long, commander of the destroyer force,-now distributed along the east coast of Mexico, told of no disorder. The movement of the battleship was understood to be only an additional precautionary measure. |