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

File No. 814.48/8

Chargé Thurston to the Secretary of State

[Telegrams]

American Legation,
Guatemala, December 27, 1917, 6 p.m.

Shocks continue. Water situation becoming serious, sanitary conditions correspondingly affected. Mr. Clark, President local chapter American Red Cross offers funds collected to date for relief work. Amount five hundred dollars. Shall I accept and place disposition Government? Destruction continues and thousands now shelterless. Weather mild, foreign colonies safe. Request acknowledgment every message.

Thurston