File No. 312.11/7204

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Conferred with General Gavira in Juarez. He assured me troops would be hastened to Madera and that he would take up with General Trevino matter of providing adequate guard for train to-morrow from Chihuahua to El Paso.

Juarez authorities so far display desire to please us. De facto forces in this section are however insufficiently organized and I think uneasy as to their security. The many Villa troops who have been disarmed and mustered out and who are in Chihuahua and Juarez without employment constitute a problem which would have been unnecessary had they been sufficiently organized to distribute these people. Their haste to get ammunition out of Juarez, and beyond reach of any possible uprising, expresses their anxiety and I think weakness.

Cobb