Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1914 — VILLA RESIGNS AS CARRANZA’S AID [ARTICLE]

VILLA RESIGNS AS CARRANZA’S AID

Split Seems Sure to Result in Complication of Mexican TroubleMediators Disconsolate.

El Paso, Tex., June 16.-General Villa tendered his resignation to General Carranza within the last week, it became known tonight. To Villa’s message, the constitutionalist chief replied, asking who would succeed him. Following this; Villa’s military chiefs held a conference and sent a “round robin” to Carranza, deelar ing they would accept none other than Villa as a leader. The split of today resulted. General Villa tonight ordered all commanders of garrisons throughout the territory he controls to report at once at Torreon. , This order was accepted ominously by observers here. History of the Pascual Orozco rebellion against President Madero was revived.

Niagara Falls, Ont., June 16. Only developments now unforeseen, such as a change of attitude on the part of the constitutionalists or the Huerta delegates, can keep the mediation conference in session. The dispatches of the forcible seizure by a Villa official of the telegraph office at Jlaurez, held previously by Carranza officials, created a stir in the mediation colony. The Huerta delegates said it plainly showed the correctness of their repeated warnings that a lack of cohesion in the constitutionalist ranks would lead to anarchy in the north. The news served also to confirm suspicions which have been current in many quarters here, of a breach between Villa and Carranza. The 1 gravest apprehension, is felt here of what may follow a break between General Carranza and General Villa. Should their forces clash, a condition of anarchy might ensue, which in all probability would arouse again the demand for armed intervention by the United States. The mediators hold the opinion bat they have accomplished something, in that war between the United States and a Huerta government was halted by mediation. They point to the fact that cordial feeling has developed between the American and Huerta delegates. El Paso, Tex., June 16.—The bureau of information ahd the telegraph office at Jautez, in control of Carranza officials, were taken over forcibly tonight by soldiers under Col. Thomas Ornelas, military commander of Jaurez and a Villa supporter. Similar confiscations are authentically reported to have taken place at Chihuahua City and at Torreon, where Villa remained today. In addition it has been learned bat the customs house and the ireasury department at Jaurez had been confiscated by Villa’s officers. These seizures evidently place the entire northern part of Mexico in the hands of Villa’s military leaders.

Washington, June 16.—Despite reports of an impending break in mediation over the selection of the personnel of the proposed provisional government, officials of the Washington government maintain confidence that mediation will not fail, and Secretary Bryan today Was just as emphatic as ever in his.declaration that the progress of the conference was satisfactory. The fact that the mediators had replied to Carranza’s recent offer to send delegates, suggesting that he had not fully considered their former note in which it was stipulated there must be a cessation of hostilities against Huerta if the constitutionalists were to participate in mediation, did not ruffle the American secretary Of state. In the face of this Mr. Bryan asserted that the United States still held to the view that there would be participation th the peace conference by the constitutionalists.