File No. 312.52/517.
Consul Canada to the Secretary of State.
Vera Cruz, February 8, 1915.
Spanish Consul informs me two Spaniards of high social standing ordered to leave country within five days without being informed [Page 1036] of cause, time expiring today. He has advised them not to leave and will request Constitutionalist government if they should be arrested to show cause according to law and energetically protest against such order of expulsion. He requests my assistance in securing legal treatment for his countrymen and, as I am convinced in the case of these two men, request authority from the Department to make strong representations against arbitrary expulsion of these two as well as all other foreigners in the future.