File No. 812.00/17813
Collector Cobb to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
El Paso,
April 11, 1916, 2 p.m.
A mining company which has been shipping fuel regularly to Chihuahua informs me confidentially of their inability to get movement south from Juarez during past week. Juarez authorities have told them shipping could proceed as soon as train crew could come in from Chihuahua. Three crews have arrived but have not become available for southern shipping. It appears that Juarez authorities are holding crew for some unknown military use of their own, possibly that they might not be available about Chihuahua.
Cobb