SEETHING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1914, Page 7

SEETHING

PLOT AND COUNTER- PLOT MEXICAN TURMOIL PROJECTED COUP D'ETAT. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) MEXICO CITY, 7th February. Reports of plots and counter-plots keep the political situation in Mexico seething. The. latpst discovery is a coup d'etat to depose President Huerta. Troops were placed so as to command the whole of the city, and there was much excitement. The- measures thus taken prevented any outbreak. BRITAIN'S ABSTENTION AMERICAN PRESS APPROVAL. NO TERRITORY WANTED. LONDON, 7th February. Responsible journalistic opinion in' the United States warmly approves Great Britain's abstention from embarrassing enquiries as to President Wilson's policy in regard to the Mexican situation. The American Ambassador (Mr. Page), in a speech delivered at the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce dinner, said that if anyone thought that the United States wanted to acquire Mexico, or to establish a protectorate, he missed the key to the whole development of the republican institutions. America did not desire more territory. He added that the principle that every State must govern itself applied to Mexico as it did to all the other Southern States of Latin America. U.S. DIFFICULTIES WITH LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES. NEW YORK, 7th February. The New York press is concerned at the growing difficulties of the United States relations with the Latin American republics, and points out that Congress "has taken to the woods" in Haiti; forms of government have disappeared from San Domingo; trouble is .brewing in Venezuela ; revolutionary activity is manifest in Biazil ; Colombia is agitated by fierce elections; while the Caribbean republics distrust Washington. Under these circumstances President Wilson's notions of constitutional government are prejudicing America with the Latin countries.