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.

The Secretary of State to Consul Letcher.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 12, 1915.

General Scott telegraphs from El Paso General Villa has given assurances properties of foreign merchants in Chihuahua will be returned to them but that they will be prosecuted in the civil court for any infraction of the law; also that no meeting of mining men will be held at Chihuahua.

Lansing.