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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 136, 15 July 1914, Page 6

Huerta has been re-elected president of the Mexican Bepublic under most farcical circumstances. The Peace Conference has said its say, has been outrageously snubbed by the Constitutionalists, and now Carranza and Villa are at polite loggerheads over the question as to who should lead the victorious Democrats on the capital city. Villa will claim, and with good reason, that, as he has been in the main responsible for the successes that have followed the Constitutional banner, the honour should be his. Probably there is more at the bottom of the little jealousy than the mere leadership of the march on Mexico City. Carranza, no doubt, is becoming a trifle dubious as to whether or not the fiery, ambitious Villa will be amenable to control once he caps all his achievements by capturing the capital —that he should fail in this appears from this distance scarcely possible, as the Huertans are at a great disadvantage in the matter of munitions of war. The genial erstwhile brigand, on his part, may possibly take it into his head, once he has the seat of Government at his mercy, to dictate terms to Carranza-. Villa's diplomacy is of the sword or the revolver. The victorious Constitutionalists whom he lias led with so much success will be more likely to heed his directions than those at' Carranza, who has done more intriguing than actual fighting. In such a turbulent country, and witli such adventurers scheming for pride of place, the outcome is .difficult to predict. It would be quite in keeping with the extraordinary conditions that have prevailed in troubled Mexico for years past that the victorious combatants, after disposing'of their common enemy, | should then turn about and rend each | other.