File No. 312.93/20.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Protection of Chinese, your April 29, 9 p.m. If the Mexican Government makes no objection, the consular agent at Cananea may exert his unofficial good offices in every proper way to secure protection of the Chinese in that district. You will so inform him.

Huntington Wilson.