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

File No. 312.51/132.

The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador .

No. 1516.]

Department of State,
Washington , August 4, 1915 .

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of July 28, 1915, in which you ask the Department to instruct the American Vice Consul at Durango, Mexico, to use his influence with the local authorities at that place, in order that the life and property of Mr. Chanel, a French citizen, may be respected.

In reply I have the honor to inform your excellency that the Department has sent appropriate telegraphic instructions to the American Vice Consul at Durango, as requested.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing.