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with regard to the railways are so similar one might ask the editor of the Mexican News Notes why it is that in Mexico federal troops are sent as escorts on all railway lines to protect the passengers and the property? If conditions are so normal why did the government send a special troop train to escort Ambassador Fletcher to the capital and why did this special train, with a heavy guard, run only during the day? Why, too, are most of the trains running between Mexico City and Laredo detained at night within some railway station?
