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Show GliZll FACTION SCORNSMEDIATION WILL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYONE FRIENDLY TO PRESIDENT HUERTA. Assertion is Made That if the Constitutionalists Consti-tutionalists Are Let Alone They Will Settle the Entire Mexican Question in a Few Months. El Paso. A semi-official statement from General Carranza's headquarters headquar-ters at Durango criticising actions of the A. B. C. mediators at Niagara Falls, and an announcement from General Villa reiterating his allegiance alle-giance as a military leader to Car-ranza, Car-ranza, were the developments Mon-, day of the Mexican situation here. Villa arrived at Chihuahua City from Torreon on his way for a visit to Juarez on the border here. Carranza was reported as having begun preparations pre-parations to move by way of Torreon to Saltillo, where he will perfect his provisional government. The statement from Durango, where Carranza's provisional government govern-ment has been established several days, was addressed to the American press with a note to the effect that it had official sanction, although it was not a formal declaration. The statement declares that "The dominant sentiment of the constitutionalists constitu-tionalists regarding the proceeding-of proceeding-of the mediation commission at Niagara Nia-gara Falls is one of astonishment that there should be such apparent lack of understanding on the part o! that body, not only with regard to conditions in Mexico, hut as to the attitude of the constitutionalists regarding re-garding the mediators." The declaration is made that the constitutionalists will have nothing 'to do with anyone friendly to Huerta and that they will not tolerate out side interference. They declare thai if let alone they will settle the entire Mexican question in a few months and in proof of their ' ability to dc this, point to what they have already accomplished in the way of driving the federals from two-thirds of the area cf the country, with the imminent immi-nent prospect of securing the other third in no great time. They point also to what they have already done and are doing in settling set-tling the agrarian problem. The constitutionalists assert the foreign mediators have not been able to settle this question in their own countries and yet they apparently take it upon themselves to settle so grave a matter for a country of whose local conditions they must be ignorant. |