Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 812.00/3593c.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Consul at Chihuahua.¹

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 14, 1912—3 p.m.

Following telegram sent to Embassy [see telegram to Ambassador Wilson, April 14, 3 p.m., supra].

Immediately present this matter to Orozco, informally and unofficially, according to above instructions, and point out that you are instructed by your Government informally to say that you must continue to exercise your functions and to make representations whenever occasion demands, being an American Consul charged with the protection of American citizens and interests in Mexico and holding an exequatur from the Mexican Government as representing the Mexico people.

Huntington Wilson.

1. Forwarded through American Consulate at Ciudad Juárez.