File No. 812.512/777.
Special Agent Carothers to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
El Paso, (Undated; received August 26,
1915).
Your August 23. It is impossible at this time to get cotton tax removed. From information given me by employees of Tlahualilo [Page 979] hacienda they are so far not suffering very much except for certain amounts of corn taken for troops. I have protested to General Villa against this seizure and asking for full protection of property. There is little hope of securing a removal of the tax and I believe it will be best for them not to ship until some definite arrangement can be made.
Carothers.