The attempt at mediation in the Mexican affair has passed
into a series of secret conferences held between the mediators (the representatives of the Argentine, Brazil, and Chile) and the Mexican and American representatives alternately. The Times correspondent in a telegram published on Friday says that President Wilson will have to make concessions in return for the " elimination " of General Huerta. What the conces- sions would be we have no idea, but we suppose that the A.B.C. group are anxious to go into the whole very awkward question of the Monroe Doctrine and the degree of authority over the South American Continent to which Mr. Wilson pre- tends. Meanwhile there is no sign that General Hnerta has any intention of helping the mediators by resigning. As Mr. Wilson's only definite point of policy is still to get rid of General Hnerta, it follows that he must think either of the Constitutionalist leaders preferable to General Hunts, as a President for Mexico. We cannot understand the grounds for this preference. According to the latest reports, General Villa, having captured one of the Federal generals, General Ozorno, has executed him and all his staff—thirty-two persons in all. It is true that this is the way of Mexican warfare, but the balance of criminality certainly is not in favour of the Constitutionalists.
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