File No. 812.00/15717.
Special Agent Carothers to the Secretary of State.
General Villa has authorized General Scott to treat in his name for an armistice of three months in order that all railroads be opened for traffic, troops of all factions remaining where they are; that he bring Zapata into the conferences as defending the same ideas as the [Page 803] division of the north; that any faction refusing to treat on peace be cut off from obtaining elements of war by the United States.
If Scott could see Obregon, Pablo Gonzales and Zapata on these matters I am sure he could settle the whole problem. I would cheerfully accompany him anywhere.