352.1115/1291: Telegram
The Vice Consul at Vigo (Stewart) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:05 p.m.]
Your circular, September 1, 2 p.m.10 All Americans in this district having funds for repatriation are leaving at own expense. Many destitute unable to leave under any circumstances except repatriation by the United States or maintenance by the American Government in the country to which evacuated, otherwise their death by starvation probable. What does the Department authorize me to do in such cases? If American vessels withdraw from Spanish waters these persons are left without protection promised in the Department’s circular, August 1, 2 p.m.11
With the exception members of Masonic Order all Americans this district believed safe at present except in Carthage but Masons of any nationality are the objects of persecution and possible killing by fanatical militia.