GOVERNOR OF MEXICO

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 8

GOVERNOR OF MEXICO

BRITAIN AND FRANCE WILL RECOGNISE CARRANZA.

WASHINGTON, 3rd November.

Britain and France have notified the United States that they are ready to' recognise Senor Carranza as the de facto Governor of Mexico.

[Whatever Carvanza's personal faults and political weaknesses may be, he has some advantages over Huerta, whose recognition was so ardently desired, recently remarked the Springfield Republican. Carranza has not climbed up by means of the assassination of a predecessor. Carranza's present power in Mexico is the fruit of the repeated victories of his generals in tha field, while Huerta, when put to the test of military struggle, lost every battle of consequence in which his forces engaged. Even when Villa, presumed to be the strongest soldier in Mexico, attempted to eliminate Carranza and drive him out of the country, the "first chief" somehow was able to rally able lieutenants to his cause, to hold his own in the campaigning, and finally to drive Villa, out of Central Mexico and back into the northern districts, where the population is scantiest. Huerta had been incapable of such an achievement a year earlier when Villa was more poorly equipped and enjoyed far less prestige as a soldier. If these various Mexican leaders are to be judged by what they accomplish. Carranza now appears to be the strongest man since Porfirio Diaz. Every one of his generals was steadfast in support of his leadership when recently put to the test by the pan-American Conference.

. . . Carranza represents the principles of the Madero revolution, which the Taft Administration virtually, recognised when it recognised Madero as President oE Mexico. Carranza .was the very hrst Governor of a Mexican State to declare his continued fidelity; to the Madero regime, when the President was murdered, and to raise the standard of opposition' to the dictatorship of Huerta' He has maintained his personal ascen dency as the " first chief" of ibe constitutionalist party, with Villa and without Villa, to a degree surpassing all expectations. In other Latin-American countries, convulsed by revolutionarystruggles, men who do what Carranza has done usually secure the recognition of foreign Powers, including the United States, /or the simple reason that their achievement marks them as the lalers most likely to control the 'country and discharge iis foreign obligations." The alternative in Mexico to-day seems to be this—Carranza or intervention.]