Office of the Historian

File No. 312.115R39/57

The Secretary of Slate to Consul Simpich

No. 29
Department of State,
Washington, December 26, 1917.

Sir: The Department is in receipt of your despatch No. 41, of the 11th instant, reporting further on the Yaqui situation in Sonora, and transmitting an enclosure giving an account of the attack, by Yaqui Indians, on Esperanza and the burning of the Richardson Company’s headquarters.

Copies of your despatch and of its enclosure have been sent to the Embassy, for its information in connection with the Department’s telegrams to it of the 8th and 12th instant, and the Embassy has been instructed to endeavor to impress upon the Mexican Foreign Office the seriousness of the situation in the Yaqui Valley as affecting American lives and property.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Wilbur J. Carr