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

File No. 312.52/63.

The Secretary of State to the Spanish Ambassador.

No. 222.]

Department of State,
Washington , December 18, 1913.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of December 13th, regarding the protection of lives and properties of Spanish subjects in Mexico, and, in compliance with your request, I am glad to inform you that the Department is today instructing American consular officers in territory occupied by revolutionists to extend all possible and proper protection to the lives and properties of Spanish subjects in their districts during the continuance of the present revolutionary disturbances in Mexico.

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

J. B. Moore.