812.00Sonora/405: Telegram
The Consul at Nogales (Altaffer) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:59 p.m.]
This Consulate is receiving an increasing number of requests for intervention with rebel army leaders on the part of American shareholders in Mexican companies because of forced loans and requisition of properties. The rebels can point to the fact that in incorporating, these Americans in most cases agreed to consider themselves Mexicans insofar as their interest[s] in the companies were concerned. Assuming intervention to be admissible and proper in such cases the Consulate requests instruction as to the basis its representations should take.