File No. 312.52/271.
The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Navy.
Washington, May 19, 1914.
Sir: I have the honor to enclose a copy of a note from the Spanish Ambassador at this capital in which he states that he is advised that the Spanish colony in the port of Guaymas, Mexico, is completely shut off from communication with the Spanish Minister at Mexico City, and the latter is apprehensive that the colony may be left without adequate protection if the town should be taken by the revolutionary party.
This Department will be glad to have orders given to the naval commander in the waters about Guaymas to extend all practicable and proper protection to the Spanish subjects mentioned, in case necessity for such protection shall arise.
In this connection you are informed that the Department is advised that its consular agent at Guaymas is now in the United States and that there is at present no representative of this Department in Guaymas.
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