File No. 812.00/3027.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Consul at Chihuahua.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Your March 3, 3 p.m. Make the widest and most emphatic public denial of any intention whatsoever on the part of this Government to [Page 736] intervene in Mexico. Make this statement as under express instructions to do so.

Huntington Wilson.