File No. 812.00/11547, 11564.
Consul Canada to the Secretary of State.
Vera Cruz , April 20, 1914, 9 p.m.
Steamer Ypiranga, owned by Hamburg-American Line, will arrive tomorrow from Germany with 200 machine guns and 15,000,000 cartridges; will go to Pier 4 and start discharging at 10.30. There will be 30 cars on the pier to load the munitions of war direct from the steamer; trains of 10 cars each will be sent out over the Mexican Railway as soon as loaded, making three trains in all.
There are now here 1,200 standard and narrow-gauge freight-cars including [list of cars]; 10 narrow-gauge engines and 10 standard-gauge engines. Plenty of coal and oil in railroad yards.
The general in command states that he will not fight but will leave with all soldiers and rolling-stock tomorrow, tearing up the track behind him.