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. 812.00/4007.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, May 24, 1912—5 p.m.

Zapata has by letter announced to Consul General Shanklin his intention to attack the City of Mexico and asks that Americans be advised in order to remove from the city. I desire the Department’s instructions, and meantime have instructed the Consul General to make no reply to Zapata.

Wilson.