Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.00/18171

Consul Bowman to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Consulate,
Frontera, May 16, 1916.

The Mayor of Frontera has received instructions from Governor to organize the citizens for defense, treating the question of a war as a certainty but not yet declared. Americans have not been ill-treated though usual threats from irresponsible people have been made.

Bowman