File No. 812.00/6631.
The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Mexico, March 11, 1913—noon.
98. Carranza, defeated near Saltillo, has retreated to Monclova, where his forces will in all probability be dispersed. This will leave [Page 763] the revolutionary movement in the north terminated except in the State of Sonora. The attention of the Department should be sharply directed to Sonora and to Lower California, or international complications may be brought about by intrigues on both sides of the frontier.
If any of our consuls have inadvertently been sympathizing with local activities against the Federal Government for supposedly good motives they should, in my opinion, be instructed to avoid such complications and to work for submission to the Federal authorities, by which alone peace can be restored.
The rest of Mexico, so far as the advices of the Embassy are concerned, is at peace except for a revolt of rurales in the State of Guerrero, which I do not consider formidable.