File No. 312.52/50.
The Secretary of State to the Spanish Ambassador.
Washington, December 6, 1913.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note2 of December 4, in which you inform the Department that you have received a telegram from the Minister of Spain at Mexico [Page 902] City in which he asks you to request this Department to send urgent instructions to the American Consul at Chihuahua, Mexico, to use his good offices to the end that the foreign and Mexican residents there be respected by the revolutionists.
In reply I beg to inform you that, in accordance with your request that your colleague’s wishes be complied with, the Department has sent to the American Consuls at Chihuahua and Juárez appropriate instructions in the premises.
Accept [etc.]
- Not printed.↩