File No. 422.11G93/420.]
The Secretary of State to the American Consulate at Guayaquil.
Washington, January 6, 1912.
Hand the following, textually and unofficially, to the authorities at Guayaquil:
I have been instructed by my Government to deliver to the Minister for Foreign Affairs a note in the following terms:
Destruction of valuable American properties in the course of the present unfortunate disturbances obliges the Government of the United States to give notice that American lives and property within the Republic must be fully and adequately protected. This Government, furthermore, must hold Ecuador strictly responsible for all wanton or illegal attacks upon American property or interests there situated, including the improper appropriation, conversion, or diversion of funds set aside by the Government of Ecuador under solemn contractual obligations assumed by it toward American investments.