Hale sends reports throughout June. Aug. 9 President Wilson sends Governor John Lind to Mexico as an unofficial agent. Lind, rebuffed by Huerta, spends some months in Veracruz. Villa's new army routs forces under Felix Terrazas at San Andres, taking three trains and other booty. Start of the ''honeymoon'' between Mexico and the United States.
Villa becomes a civil governor for the first time.
Huerta's second coup. Arrest and imprisonment of eighty-five Mexican congressmen. Huerta is elected president in an election so obviously rigged as to be nullified and deferred for nine months. Oct. 17 Carranza establishes a provisional government at Hermosillo, in Sonora. Villa captures Juarez, taking 3,000 prisoners.