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Show 'NEW MAN TAKES REINS IN MEXICO GUTIERREZ IS DEPOSED AND GENERAL GARZA CHOSEN IN HIS PLACE. Man Chosen by Convention to Rule Over War Stricken Republic Was a Member of Madero's Staff During Madero Revolt. Mexico City. General Roque Gonzales Gon-zales Garza has been named provisional provi-sional president of Mexico by the convention con-vention in session here on Sunday, over which he has presided. The former provisional president, ' General Gutierrez, together with Generals Gen-erals Blanco, Robbies and Jose Vas-concelos, Vas-concelos, left Mexico City Sunday morning at 4 o'clock for Pachuco. Martial law has been declared by General Garza and the city is being patrolled by mounted police. In electing Garza the convention declared de-clared itself to be supreme, and until a new president is elected . has assumed as-sumed all the legislative, executive and judicial powers. Roque Gonzales Garza' was a member mem-ber of Francisco Madero's staff during the Madero revolution. His brother Federico Gonzales Garza was a Madero Ma-dero cabinet member. Both have been connected with the Villa revolt against Carranza. The new provisional president was prominent in the sessions of the convention con-vention at Aguas Calientes and Mexico Mexi-co City. He acted as president of the permanent committee of twenty-one members of the convention after the flight of Martin Espinoza, the committee com-mittee head, and nine other members of the committee. General Zapata, it is learned, has entrenched himself in his old stronghold strong-hold at Cuernavaca. General Eulalio Gutierrez, deposed as provisional president of Mexico, fled from the capital with several members of his cabinet to escape assassination as-sassination at the hands of Zapatistas, according to reports. |