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 repair shops in all portions of the Republic have been busy for over two years in repairing engines, freight and passenger cars, and the amount of work thus accomplished has been remarkable considering the conditions. The iron work of hundreds if not thousands of cars has been utilised in the construction of new ones and the process is going steadily forward. Locomotives that had been wrecked or temporarily disabled have been put in commission by the score, and the repair shops at all the railway centres are kept fully occupied with the work, as they have been continuously since the restoration of peace and as rapidly as the lines were again controlled by the Government.

The foregoing are well known facts easily susceptible of demonstration by personal observation, yet the Post correspondent has apparently preferred to repeat the allegations of antagonists of the Government rather than seek proof himself at first hand.

AS TO RECOGNITION Fully as surprising is the statement that the United States and the Allies have not recognised the present government of Mexico as a de jure one, and "that their ambassadors and ministers are not at this writing (some time in September from all appearances) accredited to the de jure government.

The Government of Mexico was recognised by