Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 312.11/6801d.

The Secretary of State to Consul Letcher.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, October 9, 1915.

Advise confidentially all Americans in your district to leave Chihuahua for border. You are instructed arrange for closing Parral agency, and advise agent and Americans in his district to withdraw therefrom. You are further instructed to close consulate and leave for border.

Lansing.