MEXICAN TURMOIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 5

MEXICAN TURMOIL.

AMERICAN AIR SCOUTS SHOT AT.

PEACE CONFERENCE. SATISFACTORY PROGRESS. ißv Cable. —Press Association. —CopyrishO WASHIXGTOX. May 20. American airmen while flying yesterday on the out-ikirte of Vera <~ruz, were received with a vollpv from eonccalpil Mexican rillemeu. Non e of the iinu-hincs were damaged. There are renewed rumour* of a revolt in Mexico City. f>atisfactory report? have been reveived from Niagara Full? with rpjrard to the [>eaee conference- A beeTi reached on which the Lni'.ed States and Me.\k-o will be able lo roacli a settlement. Mr. Bryan iSeiretarv for Suite) ha.-> received mes.<a.fre,i tiiroupa the Spanish \mbassadiir indieatine that there :s no cause for alarm throtiph the activity of Mexiains around Ye-ra t'ruz. The United State-; bus ajrreeil that n> areoplnnes will |>;u-i the Mexican lines while hoiniliti*> an , siispemied. The War Department has decided not ro withdraw the battleships from Mexican waters until all possibility of war has disappeared. Britain, the United States .and ; ' lp Netherlands have agreed that the :i<v]u:pition of the Tampieo oil properties by persons who have taken advantage of the abF*nee of the real owners dnrinp hostilities, shall be repudiated by*the three countries.