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. 812.00/3057.

The American Consul at Chihuahua to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Consulate,
Chihuahua (via El Paso, Tex.), March 5, 1912—11 a.m.

The warning to leave isolated points issued to Americans by Ambassador can not be communicated to the hundreds of Americans in remote mining sections without special messengers. I request definite instructions. Railway communications closed nearly everywhere. Dictatorship exists here now. Communications closed south in order to prevent apprehended advance Federals against Chihuahua.

Marion Letcher.