Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.504/115

Consul Dawson to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Consulate,
Tampico, July 22, 1917, 5 p.m.

General strike has already commenced with every indication early riots and Government well disposed but lacking soldiers to control situation. The agitators received to-day fourteen thousand dollars from Galveston.

Dawson