File No. 312.11/7202
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2. American Smelting and Refining Company has telegraphed manager at Chihuahua to come out and to bring various other Americans out associated with them. I am informed similar telegrams will go to Parral district from Alvarado Mining Company and to Madera district by Hearst manager and Madera Lumber Company. Smelting officers requested that I intercede with Mexican officials here with request that they be furnished adequate guard of soldiers for trip from Chihuahua to El Paso which it is their desire to have made as a day run. I will immediately comply with their request and also respectfully recommend that Department call upon representative in Washington of de facto Government to have instructions hastened without delay whatsoever to General Trevino in Chihuahua to expedite trip and to furnish guard of mature men in sufficient number as distinguished from boys or immature soldiers frequently used for such purposes.
It is respectfully urged that all Americans from State of Chihuahua should come up. I am convinced that de facto authorities are incapable of protecting them especially because of the limited number of forces in the State of Chihuahua. This applies to Americans around Casas Grandes, residents of Chihuahua and Parral and Americans wherever they can be reached.