14 FEBRUARY 1914, Page 14

PRESIDENT WILSON AND MEXICO.

[To Tax EDITOR OF ran. " SPTC71.704.1 SIB,—Is there not an obvious explanation of the revocation of ex-President Taft's order forbidding the export of arms and ammunition over the Rio Grande? The Huertists, con- trolling all the ports of Mexico, both on the Pacific and Atlantic seaboards, can import all the arms, dm., which they need (and for which they can pay) from Germany, Japan, and elsewhere, while the Carranzists can get nothing except across the American frontier. The Taft order, therefore, amounted to a discrimination in favour of the Huertiats. Can they show any good reason why such favouritism should continue P—I