File No. 704.9312/5.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

According to advice received from the Chinese chargé d’affaires in this city some 300 Chinese subjects have been murdered at Torreón by the revolutionists. He requests that the American consular agent at Torreón extend his good offices in aid of Mr. Woo Lam Po, who has been asked to make an investigation of the massacre.

Wilson.