File No. 704.9312/3.

The Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

The request of the Chinese chargé d’affaires at Mexico City, as reported in your telegram of the 8th instant, was communicated to the [Page 616] Department of Commerce and Labor, and that department has sent the following instruction to the immigration inspector at El Paso:

In case attack upon Juárez permit Chinese enter El Paso under hest possible arrangements to insure prompt return on cessation hostilities there.

Knox.