Huerta's Own Aids Kept In The Dark.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 25, 1913:
Mexican President's Intentions Withheld, It Is Admitted, from Men Close to Him.
EARLY ACTION IS EXPECTED
General Awaits Wilson's Reply — Republic Impoverished — Rumor Trevino Will Be Ruler.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24.— A solution of the present tangle in the relations of the United States and Mexico, one way or the other, is expected to be reached in the next few days, according to general admissions made in this capital to-night.
    The situation is complicated. Developments are problematical, and the persons in touch with the international snarl will admit nothing on which to base a prophecy.
    Men close to Provisional President Huerta admit that they are unable to tell what stand he will take eventually. They say, however, they are certain that the present head of the Mexican Government will take no action until after he receives an answer from the United States to the note sent to State Secretary Bryan by Federico Gamboa, Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations.

Huerta Stands Pat, It's Said.
    It is believed in this city that the Intimations received by the Administration in Washington to the effect that President Huerta was preparing to reconsider the peace proposals made to him by John Lind, President Wilson's personal emissary to this republic, are without foundation. This belief is due to the fact that it has been stated officially Gen. Huerta did not intend to take any action until the Wilson Administration should answer his Foreign Minister's note to Secretary Bryan.
    The statement is made in Mexico City that whatever action President Huerta may take will depend greatly on the nature of President Wilson's reply to the Gamboa-Bryan note, or on failure by the United States Government to make any answer.

May Stiffen Huerta's Spine.
    If no answer to Minister Gamboa's note is made by the Washington Administration it is believed President Huerta's stand will be strengthened. Should no reply be received it is thought the Provisional President probably would maintain the stand already adopted by him in response to the proposals submitted to his Administration through ex-Gov. Lind.
    Men high in authority here assert the belief that officials in Washington are receiving reports sent from this city by persons who merely are voicing their own impressions, rather than the actual situation and its possible developments. It is thought those personal impressions have reached the press as official reports from the Mexican capital, although coming only from private sources.
    The financial situation in Mexico admittedly is bad, but not so bad as necessarily to result in the fall of the Huerta Administration. If the attitude of the United States is not satisfactory, the position of the Mexican Government is that drastic measures possibly will be taken to tide over the financial crisis.

Rumor Trevino Will Rule.
    It is rumored here that Gen. Geronimo Trevino, commanding the third military zone, is coming to the capital, possibly to assume the Provisional Presidency of Mexico. This is denied by practically all the officials of the Huerta Government. Those who do not deny it explain that they have no information on the subject.
    Military developments last week were such as to warrant the belief that the Government was making much headway against the revolution and the bandits.
    The action by the War Department of the United States in planning to increase the American forces along the international border is taken here as contemplation of an armed menace against the Mexican Republic, possibly with a view to enforcing demands made on the Huerta Government by the Department of State in Washington. It is regarded as similar to the action taken by President Taft.