Seek Egress For Americans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 21, 1912:
We Require Mexico to Keep Line Open from Tampico to Capital.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.— The United States Government has sent a communication to the Mexican Government declaring that the United States "expects" Mexico to keep open the line of communication between Tampico and Mexico City. This significant notice, while in diplomatic language, is more than a mere request, and is intended as a step toward enabling Americans in the southern part of the republic to make their way in safety to the capital or to the port of Tampico, where they would be able to obtain sea passage to places of safety.
    Henry Lane Wilson, United States Ambassador to Mexico, reached Washington to-day, but his coming is robbed of much of its seeming importance by the fact that Mr. Wilson has been on leave at his old home in Indiana for some time and his knowledge of events in the southern republic is not as complete as that of the State Department. He declined to comment on the Mexican situation.
    Secretary of State Knox will be here to-morrow from his trip to Japan, and he and Mr. Wilson will thoroughly discuss Mexican conditions.
    Huntington Wilson, who has been Acting Secretary of State for most of the time that Mr. Knox was away, returned to Washington to-night from a short trip to Chicago, and will participate in the conference.
    Nothing has occurred to indicate any likelihood of a change in President Taft's determination not to intervene in the Mexican situation.
    Part of Ambassador Wilson's business in Washington will be to furnish information as to the merits of claims already filed by American citizens against the Mexican Government for depredations committed by the insurgents.
    In the course of the day Ambassador Wilson had talks with A. A. Adee, the Acting Secretary of State, and W. H. Deering, who is in charge of Mexican affairs in the Latin-American division of the State Department.
    A dispatch received at the State Department to-day by Vice Consul Zoeller at Juarez said that southbound trains over the Mexican National Railroad were forced to turn back yesterday at Candelaria, forty-eight miles south of Juarez, on account of burned bridges. Mr. Zoeller added that in spite of the threats of the rebels to destroy the bridges if repaired, the Mexican Northwestern Railway Company was making an attempt to do so.
    The State Department officials said today that the request for recognition of belligerency had come from the Diaz faction.