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. 812.00/2840.

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February 20, 1912—5 p.m.

Railroad destroyed 40 miles south of Guadalajara, and frequent revolutionary rumors throughout State of Jalisco. Increase of local garrison urgent, and representations have to-day been made to the Mexican Government. A well-known American resident on the Isthmus of Tehauntepec reports a state of affairs there which may at any moment result in a general uprising dangerous to life and property. This has been informally brought to the attention of Minister for Foreign Affairs, as have conditions in Oaxaca, where a general uprising is feared.

Wilson.