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

File No. 812.00/15719.

General Scott to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Extract.]

El Paso, August 10, 1915.

General Villa has assured Carothers and myself that there will be no meeting of the representatives of mining company as heretofore called at Chihuahua; that properties of foreign merchants in Chihuahua will be returned to them and they will be prosecuted in the civil court for any infraction of the law.

Scott,
Chief of Staff.