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

File No. 812.00/12392a–j.

The Secretary of State to certain American Consuls ⁴⁶

Department of State,
Washington, July 1, 1914.

Sir: The Department is about to send Mr. Leon J. Canova to Mexico as a special representative to act in conjunction with Mr. George C. Carothers, who for some time past has been engaged on special and confidential work in northern Mexico for the Department.

The work of these men is of a nature which the Department feels cannot well be delegated to officers assigned to specific posts with other duties to perform and their appointment is in no way intended as a reflection upon any officer in the Service.

The Department asks for the fullest and most sympathetic cooperation between the officers in the Service and these special confidential agents.

For the Secretary of State:

Wilbur J. Carr

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46. Those at Chihuahuia, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Porflrio Díaz, Durango, Hermosillo, Matamoros, Monterey, Nuevo Laredo and Tampico.