Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.00/6606.

The American Consul at Ciudad Porfirio Díaz to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Consulate,
Ciudad Porfirio Díaz, March 10, 1913.

The Governor of Coahuila, at Monclova, and Colonel Carranza, here, have just seized the rolling stock shops and their equipment and other property of the Mexican National Railway lines here. Evidently they intend to attempt to operate all the railroad and shops for the benefit of the State cause.

Luther T. Ellsworth.