Office of the Historian

812.00Sonora/651: Telegram

The Consul at Nogales (Damm) to the Secretary of State

Nogales, Ariz., April 13, 1929—11 p.m.
[Received April 14—3:40 a.m.]

From Bursley:

Extremely important for you and Department, April 13, 10 p.m. Very urgent and strictly confidential.

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Southern Pacific Company has suspended operations creating a dangerous situation and eleven American employees now taking refuge in the Consulate. Railway does not know destination of about six thousand rebel troops southbound but assumes Guaymas or points south. We cannot communicate with destroyer until tomorrow morning, if then. A destroyer needed Guaymas at once.

Damm