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Show 0BRE6QN AGAIN TO ROLEMPiTAL REPORTED THAT GARZA WILL ABANDON MEXICO CITY TO CARRANZA CHIEFTAIN. Announced That the Food Situation Will be Taken Care of Satisfactorily Sat-isfactorily by the. Present Garrison. Washington. The situation fct Mexico City assumed anotta-r Of ts rapid changes when Sir Ceil Spring-Rice, Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, called to Secretary Bryan's attention a report re-port he had received from the Mexican Mex-ican capital that the Zapatista forces under General Garza were about to abandon the city again and that General Gen-eral Obregon, the Carranza chieftain in the vicinity, was moving forward to reoccupy it. The ambassador is understood to have isked what precautions for the protection of foreigners were contemplated contem-plated by the American government in this event. Secretary Bryan said later that no reports of the intended evacuation had reached the department. He characterized such information as had been received as "suggestions as to what might happen," referring, apparently, appar-ently, to the statement of the British ambassador. Earlier tho secretary said assurances had been received from General Garza that the food situation sit-uation in Mexico City would be taken care of satisfactorily by the present garrison. |