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

File No. 812.00/4025.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, May 25, 1912—10 a.m.

Zapata’s communication mentioned in my May 24, 5 p.m., has been addressed to all consuls general here and the evening papers have published its substance; I learned this after sending my telegram. Perfect arrangements for concentration of American colony have for some time been in effect. Consul General made no reply to Zapata, whose letter caused but little alarm here; it is believed his forces are insufficiently armed to undertake a considerable movement.

Wilson.