Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 704.9312/2.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, May 8, 1911.

The diplomatic representative of China at Mexico City has informed me that Chinese subjects at Ciudad Juárez can not escape toward the south into Mexico, and requests assistance from the United States in protecting them should Ciudad Juárez be attacked. He suggests that the provisions of the exclusion act be waived, and that they be permitted to cross temporarily into American territory.

Wilson.