Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 312.11/6801c.

The Secretary of State to Consul Edwards.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, October 9, 1915.

Advise all Americans in your district to leave Chihuahua for border. Make special effort to get Mormons to withdraw. If you should be in personal danger after compliance with these instructions, you are authorized close consulate and come across border.

Hand copy of this to Carothers and Cobb.

Lansing.