Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.48/3279

Consul Dawson to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Consulate,
Tampico, July 7, 1916, 6 p.m.

Your July 6, 6 p.m. Approximately 90 Americans in Chamal Colony, fully advised of conditions and warned various times to withdraw from Mexico, decided to remain, preferring to take chances rather than abandon their only property. Believe it useless to warn them again. I am reliably informed many late refugees are already returning in belief that crisis is passed.

Dawson