Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Consul at Chihuahua.

Department of State,
Washington, April 10, 1912—4 p.m.

[Telegram in care of Consul at Ciudad Juárez.—Paraphrase.]

Immediately renew insistent demand for the prompt release of Heberland.¹ The Department is informed that he is a consulting engineer of good standing, that he was conforming to all local regulations; and that on no ground whatever he was thrown into a filthy prison and is still detained there. Telegraph result.

Huntington Wilson.

1. Spelled Heberlein elsewhere.