Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.00/6245.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams—Paraphrases.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, February 18, 1913—2 p.m.

10. Madero has just been made prisoner by Blanquette, apparently with the approval of Huerta. My messenger states that the President resisted, that a number of officers in the room were killed, and that he [Blanquette] afterwards took a squad of men and captured Gustavo Madero in the Gambrinus restaurant.

Wilson.