Office of the Historian

File No. 812.48/3398

The Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

Department of State,
Washington, August 7, 1916.

Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 126, of July 28, 1916, in which you state that it has come to your attention that certain American citizens who left Mexico City during the month of June last assert that they were ordered to leave Mexico, as a result of instructions issued by the Department of State.

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In reply you are informed that several complaints of this character have reached the Department, and that it has consistently informed the authors of such complaints that this Department did not order American citizens to leave Mexico, but that it advised them to withdraw temporarily from that country.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
John E. Osborne

Reports from American consular officers giving approximate number of Americans in their districts, number departing and number remaining

Date Place Number in district Number departing Number remaining File No.
1916 Mar. 13 Chihuahua 35 312.11/7411
16 Torreon 60 312.11/7449
18 do 25 312.11/7473
18 Laredo 14 312.11/7470
19 Manzanillo 130 312.11/7472
20 Ensenada 130 312.11/7476
20 Mazatlan 500 312.11/7478
7487
21 Guaymas, Empalme and Yaqui Valley 300 312.11/7486
21 Vera Cruz 300 312.11/7482
21 Salina Cruz 75 312.11/7484
21 Chihuahua 125 53 312.11/7541
22 Frontera 36 312.11/7502
22 Guadalahara Considerable number 312.11/7494
23 Progreso 55 312.11/7507
23 Tampico, Tuxpam 2,100 312.11/7503
23 Aguascalientes 18 312.11/7535
27 Durango 30 312.11/7530
28 Acapulco 25 312.11/7530
Apr. 4 Progreso 200
(Porto Ricans)		 812.48/3104
11 Mazatlan 150 400 312.11/7617
13 do 73 (8 British) 312.11/7646
18 do 10 312.11/7648
28 do 30 312.11/7641
May 8 do 50 300 312.11/7737
13 do 20 312.11/7693
June 19 Nogales 170 312.11/7800
19 Mexico city 670 312.11/8015
20 do 30 675 312.11/7808
20 Nogales 110 25 (at El Tigre) 812.00/18512
21 Vera Cruz 200 312.11/7819
22 Mexico City 350 300 312.11/7840
24 do 100 300 312.11/7872
24 do 1,088 312.11/8008
25 Tampico 1,180 250 812.48/3222
27 Laredo all 312.11/7891
27 Mexico City 70 312.11/7894
27 Frontera 50 812.48/3223
3296
28 Mexico City 30 312.11/7902
28 Salina Cruz 15 312.11/7903
29 Nogales Few 312.11/7915
29 Vera Cruz Many refusing to leave 312.11/7916
29 Tampico 975 812.48/3235
29 Guanajuato 13 312.11/7985
29 Quintana Roo 4 312.11/7924
29 Torreon 14 312.11/7930
July 1 Monterey Nearly all. 6 312.11/7950
1 Manzanillo 86 812.48/3244
3 Mexico City 66 200 312.11/7969
3 Tampico 50 150 812.48/3249
4 Juarez 500 (Mormons at Dublan) 312.11/7964
6 Vera Cruz 800 50 812.48/3260
21 Guadalahara 68 Over 100 812.48/3374
Aug. 4 Laredo 37 from Chamal 812.48/3396
11 do 8 from Chamal 812.48/3407
14 do 6 from Chamal 40 812.48/3413