Rebels Busy Getting Arms.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 28, 1913:
Force American Smelting Company to Make Cannon for Them.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — The State Department was advised to-day by Consul Hamm at Durango that Gov. Carranza of Coahuila, the Constitutionalist leader, and his staff left that place yesterday for Sonora to confer with the revolutionary leaders in that State. Carranza is expected to return to Durango and to keep the headquarters of the revolutionary forces there.
    The revolutionists, Consul Hamm reports, are making desperate efforts, it is said, to perfect their military organizations and to obtain arms and ammunition for their regular organizations in the field. They are directing special energy to providing artillery, and have seized shops and supplies of steel and iron for that purpose.
    The American Smelting and Refining Company, the Consul says has been forced by the revolutionist leaders to make cannon for them in its shops at Velardena. A large revolutionary force is centered at Velardena and Pedricena.