Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1916 — TROOPS MAY BE RECALLED [ARTICLE]

TROOPS MAY BE RECALLED

War Cloud Is Dispelled By Carranza Note, Which Paves Way For Peaceful Settlement. At the meeting of the cabinet Friday the reply to the note of the First Chief Carranza will be framed. It will indicate that the U. S. troops will be willing to withdraw from Mexico under the belief that General Trevino now is able to protect American interests, but will demand that Carranza proceed to hold elections and carry out the purposes of recognition by the American government. The U. Si will assent to the principle of mediation in the difficulties between the two countries and will accept the alternative of dealing with Mexico. Diplomats at Washington believe that Carranza has won a complete diplomatic victory, inasmuch as President Wilson is withdrawing the American troops, and has strengthened himself with the Mexican people. It was learned Wednesday that tha war department is considering the recall of the national guard from the border. It was discovered under the present conditions the militia is not subject to foreign service as the president has not drafted it in. Neither the state department nor the war department is able to answer inquiries from officers as to the status of the guard. The note from Carranza, a model of signed by Foreign Minister Aguilar, breathes conciliation in every paragraph. And while again insisting that the presence of American troops on Mexican soil, which is characterized as a trespass on the sovereignty of Mexico, is the immediate cause of the conflicts between the governments, General Carranza for the first time personally assumes part of the blame by admitting the 'insecurity of the frontier gives the United States a just cause for complaint against his government. By doing os, officials said, he ties the administration so far as any aggressive military measures in Mexico proper are concerned, and opens the way to a diplomatic parely to settle all points in dispute.