File No. 812.00/15064.
Special Agent Silliman to the Secretary of State.
Am informed that several chiefs now acting with Zapata in the event of rupture will side with Garza. My short acquaintance with the latter impressed me most favorably. He was very friendly to the United States. He appears to be one of the fairest characters which have come up out of the revolution. Foreigners fear that the Zapatistas will kill him before they are through. The Carranzistas [Page 692] dislike him because he has been a strong Villista. There would be no place for him in their triumph. His assassination would be a great loss and a great pity.