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Show MM REFUSES TO TiKIEDIll SAYS EFFORTS OF MEDIATOR. TO SETTLE INTERNAL PR0B. LEMS WILL PROVE FUTILE. Declares That Grave Error Was Com. mitted When They Attempted to Settle Questions of Transcendent Importance to Mexican People, El Paso. General Venustiano Cai. ranza has forwarded his reply to n, two notes of June 2 and June 5 se him by the mediation commissioner! at Niagara Falls. According to re. ports his reply to the A. B. C. mc. diators was sent to the constitution alist headquarters at Washington ta be forwarded to the members of the Niagara Falls conference. Carranza's note, it is understood reiterates his willingness to have par.' ticipated in the various conferences whose sole object he recognized to be the pacification of Mexico and whose good offices he tentatively recognized The futility of the discussion of Mexican Mex-ican Internal affairs, however, jt pointed out. While thanking the mediators fa their efforts, the first chief made plain, according to word reaching here, that among the subjects he con. Bidered it impossible to discuss were the proposed armistice, military movements move-ments of the constitutionalists, the agrarian question and the designation of a provisional president of Mexico, Carranza stated he believed that it only complies with his duty 'as first chief of the constitutional forces when he declares that a grave error has been committed when they attempt at-tempt to settle such questions ol transcendent importance to the Meii-can Meii-can people. It devolves upon the constitutionalists themselves, he held, to decide what is best for the interests inter-ests of their country. |