Office of the Historian

File No. 312.52/332.

Special Agent Carothers to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams.]125
El Paso, June 19, 1914.

Relative your telegram about forced loan 500,000 pesos at Tampico, Carranza says that he has not authorized it and has issued orders to General Caballero not to collect it. Carranza has also ordered investigation as to persecution of Spanish subjects at Monterey and promised to have it stopped.

Carothers
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  1. Communicated to the Spanish Ambassador June 23, 1914.↩