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. 312.93/20.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, April 29, 1912—9 p.m.

Some 2,000 Chinese at Cananea are likely to be attacked at any moment. Chinese Chargé d’Affaires requests me to instruct our consular agent there to afford protection. I told him that I could not act without instruction. Will the Department instruct the consular agent and advise me in the sense of its instruction?

Wilson.