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

File No. 812.00/19853

Vice Consul Blocker to the Secretary of State

[Telegrams]

Eagle Pass, November 13, 1916, 9 p.m.

The following telegram received from British Vice Consul Patrick O’Hay at Torreon in reply to Consulate’s telegram of this morning:

No accurate knowledge conditions and events beyond Bermejillo where advance north being prepared with heavy reinforcements. Three Chinese survivors of ten who fled Jimenez report all compatriots massacred there, also Arabs, Spaniards, Japanese. Mental condition of refugees compels reserve in accepting statements although probably correct in general terms. One American or Englishman, alleged name Clark, reported absent at Jimenez.

Patrick O’Hay

Blocker