Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.00/9973.

The American Chargé d’Affaires at San Salvador to the Secretary of State.

No. 337.]

American Legation,
San Salvador, Nov. 14, 1913.

Sir: In compliance with the Department’s telegraphic instruction of November 10, 2 p.m.,¹ relative to the situation in Mexico, I have the honor to report that I communicated a paraphrase translation of this telegram to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and I was informed by him, in reply to the wish of the President, that the Government of Salvador will use its influence to impress upon General Huerta, in the interests of peace and constitutional government, the wisdom of retiring, and that the Salvadoran Minister in Mexico would be instructed to that effect.

I have [etc.]

Thomas Hinckley.

1. See footnote to telegram of November 7, 10 p.m.