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

File No. 812.00/6908.

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

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Consulate.
Eagle Pass, April 3, 1913.

It has been announced that Governor Venustiano Carranza will establish the general headquarters of the Constitutionalists at Ciudad Porfirio Díaz and that he will be considered by them as their Provisional President. Gustavo Espinosa, private secretary of Governor Carranza, has left Ciudad Porfirio Díaz via Eagle Pass for some point on the American side of the border to confer with Constitutionalists of the north States of Mexico who are to meet there.

Luther T. Ellsworth.