Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 312.52/110.

Consul Alger to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Consulate,
Mazatlan, January 9, 1914.

Your instructions of December 18.¹¹¹ Request interpretation as meaning of “all proper protection to property of foreigners.”

Alger

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111. For. Rel. 1913, p. 908. It reads: “You are instructed to extend all possible and proper protection to the lives and properties of Spanish subjects in your district * * *. This also applies to all other foreign subjects within your district.”