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Show llS DICTATOR'S f DECLARES HE COULD HAVE RESTORED RE-STORED ORDER BUT FOR THE UNITED STATED. General Huerta, Now Living in Spain, Declares He Will Not Come Back to Mexico Except That He be Needed as a Soldier. Barcelona. Spain. Far from the scenes of his former triumphs and defeats, de-feats, General Victoriano Huerta, once dictator of Mexico, lives quietly in a little dwelling half an hour's drive from the center of Barcelona. His surroundings are not those of a man of wealth, a::d lie explains that he has barely enough money to keep his family in comfort. He moves about quietly and without ostentation in any form. Every afternoon he may he found in a prominent cafe drink ing with some of his trusted lieutenants lieuten-ants and talking quietly, but he never Jb in the spotlight. "What is your opinion of tits Mexican Mexi-can situation?" the former dictator was asked. "A letter just received by one of my aides describes the situation," he replied. re-plied. "Houses are being sacked, highwaymen pillage everywhere, no one nor anything is safe. There is burning, robbing and murdering. No one respects Carranza. There is neither order nor authority. Such a situation ought to come to an end. I formed an army and would have restored re-stored calm to the country had it not been tor the intervention of the United States. Bandits have taken possession posses-sion of my property; that is, of my wife's for I have nothing." "Do you intend to return to Mexico?" Mex-ico?" "No, I do not wish to return. I left the command in the hands of Carjaval in order that I might not be a hindrance hind-rance to the pacification of my country coun-try and that it might be seen that I was not seeking personal advantage. I shall not return unless my country should need me as a soldier, not as a president. If my country were threatened, threat-ened, then yes." |