Office of the Historian

812.00/23846: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Torreon (Donaldson)

Washington, May 7, 1920—5 p.m.

Your May 5, noon.

You may, in cases of necessity, exercise your informal good offices with local Mexican authorities in behalf Chinese citizens in your district seeking protection. See Department’s circular telegram September 30 last, 5 P.M.14

Colby
  1. Not printed; see note of Oct. 1, 1919, to the Chinese Chargé, Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. ii, p. 577.↩