File No. 812.00/6180.
The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Mexico, February 16, 1913—11 a.m.
I arranged the armistice last night and it is in force to-day. There is great activity in taking foreigners out of the danger zone and arranging for the transportation of many women and children to the United States. I am endeavoring to arrange to have this armistice cover to-morrow also, and Díaz has agreed. Burnside has gone to palace with instructions to endeavor to induce the Government to agree also.
The Government has suppressed the Mexican Herald, thus depriving the community of its only remaining newspaper. The Associated Press has been censored out of all practical value and the Government is engaged now in censoring the private telegrams sent through the Embassy’s post and telegraph office.