File No.812.00/3005d.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.
Washington, March 2, 1912—2 p.m.
Referring to all recent telegraphic correspondence, you are now instructed in your discretion to inform Americans that the Embassy deems it its duty to advise them to withdraw from any particular localities where conditions or prospects of lawlessness so threaten personal safety as to make withdrawal the part of common prudence, specifying localities, if any, from which withdrawal may at any time seem advisable, and stating that in any such cases consuls may take such Chargé of abandoned effects as may be possible under the circumstances.