The sun., 1913-11-14
|CARRANZA men HAVE
$S,O00,OOO TO SPEND
Bank Accounts Ready TO BE
Drawn Upon il Embargo
Is Lifted.
FOR MUNITIONS OF WAR
Tentative Agreements Made
with Manufacturers Of Fire.
arms for Rapid Shipments.

New York banks and financial institu
| tons i'm other cities have on deposit to-
day cash amounting to $4,000, 900 or more
subject TO the checks or drafts of repre-
! sentatives OF the Const tut tionalis, party
of Mexico.
At the same time the same representa-
tiyes have tentative agreements with the
ma nufa cturers of large and small arms
and ammunition that the instant the EN-
| barge ON the expectation OF arms to
| Mexico In lifted these manufacturer will
make ready to ship to the northern bor-
der OF Mexico full fighting equipment for
the forces of Gen. Venustiano Carranza
| and his Constitutionalist generals. The
| orders include modern high power army
| rifles and cartridges by the million.
! American made machine guns and field
4 guns.
! Announcement Of the foregoing came
| Yesterday from Constitutionslist sources
| a nd followed the visit last week Of their
| representatives to Washington. They re-
| turned from the capital more encouraged
over the situation than they had ever
been before. convinced that the embargo
/ is shortly TO be lifted.
Americans Protected.
According to some of these men Pres
dent Wilson. who has taken III. Mexican
was driven to the consideration OF lifting
! the embargo AS the result OF Gen Car
rauzas promise to pacify the country In
/ ninety DAYS Two objections appealed to
| him. one suggesting delay and the other
suggesting some other course of action.
The first thing to counsel delay was
| the fear that the lifting OF the embargo
might mean the massacre Of Americans
| in the large Mexican cities. Out OF the
5000 Americans in the country not more
| than one half have listened TO the ad-
vice OF tn. state Department and left the
country. majority of those remaining
are along the northern border Of the
| country. either under the protection OF
| the Constitutionalists or within easy
reaching distance OF American soil Stll
! there are thousands in the far interior. as
: in Iacatecas or i'll Mexico city itself
Many were reported leaving ny special
trains Yesterday and a great exodus Will
follow the severance Of all diplomatic
! relations. II that comes.
! The second consideration vas whether
or not II the embargo were lifted The
Constitutionalists actually had the
funds to prosecute successful cam
paign Thevisit of last week had princi-
pally TO do with that
I 'One Certificate for ai.OOO.OOO
The representatives took with them
to the official charged with settling that
question a series OF deposi, certificates
! from the banks themselves. one was
! for 81 600. 900. which was said TO be in
the National CITY Bank of New York In
the name of a Constitutionalst agent.
Another certificate from trust com
pany was for S6oo.000 TO the credit "f
members ~ the Madero family. which
| WAS pedscd for the purchase of mu-
! n!tions OF war. Still n third certificate
came, signed by individuals whose names
are good for sl.oo0.ooo and more as
! would be needed There were scatter
| ing certificates amounting TO $500, O0o.
all of them good and all subject TO
check.
This money viii be expended a,
once the agents said "carranza Will
receive every Kind or field eaapmen'.
for the s3000.oo0 does not represent all
| the cold We can get We will obtain field
guns which We have needed most for the
sieg.s and our armies will sweep across
the northern States from cas-, 10 west
IN "A few days'
Where this money cam" IRON was no'
said Yesterday except that part OF IL
WAS coming from the Madero family,
winch is enormously wealthy. BIZ busi-
ness interests Amer'caV and foreign.
are said 10 have advanced the rest. be-
l'-vng that Carranza must have his OPP
portuni,y before the final step II taken