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. 822.00/269.]

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Quito, February 28, 1912.

Cordier reports all quiet on the coast. Yorktown may safely be withdrawn if she remains within reach. Political conditions calm for the moment, but impossible to foresee outcome.

Bingham.