File No. 151.07/4.

The Chinese Minister to the Acting Secretary of State.

No. 33.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have received many telegraphic reports from the Chinese residents in various parts of Mexico concerning the serious character of the present disturbances in that country, which may render it imperative for them to seek refuge in the United States. During a similar revolution in Mexico last year, the Department of Commerce and Labor issued timely instructions2 to the American immigration authorities on the Mexican border to allow Chinese residents in Mexico, whether of the merchant class or not, to take refuge in the United States, as your Department was good enough to inform me in its note of the 13th of June last.3 If those instructions are no longer effective at the present time, I take liberty of requesting that they be revived and made applicable to the cases of the Chinese residents in Mexico seeking refuge in the United States during the present revolution.

Thanking you in advance for your kind compliance with my request,

I avail [etc.]

Chang Yin Tang.
  1. See For. Rel. 1911, p. 616.
  2. Not printed.