Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 312.52/50.

The Secretary of State to the Spanish Ambassador.

No. 218.]

Department of State,
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 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.]

For the Secretary of State:

J. B. Moore.

2. Not printed.