i7atinn Ro«niirces ()6th Congress, ) SENATE. . ( Document M Session. ) \ No. 165. r DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN LIFE AND PROPERTY IN MEXICO. F 1234 .U587 Copy 2 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING IN RESPONSE TO SENATE RESOLUTION OF JUNE 19, 1919, A RE- PORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN RESPECT TO CLAIMS AGAINST MEXICO FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE AND PROP- ERTY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN THAT COUNTRY. December 4 (calendar day, December 5), 1919. — Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate : I transmit herewitli a report from tlie Secretary of State in further response to the resolution adopted by the Senate on June 19, 1919, in respect to claims against Mexico for the destruction of life ancl property of American citizens in that country. This supplemental report states the number of nationals of other countries than the United States who have been killed in Mexico since May 25, 1911, the date on which President Diaz resigned the presidency of Mexico. WooDEOw Wilson. The White PIouse, 5 December, 1919. The President: The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to refer to his report, dated the 31st of July last, in which a reply, in part, is made to the resolution adopted by the Senate on June 19, 1919, in respect to claims against Mexico for the destruction of life and property of American citizens in that country, and, in further reply to the resolution, has the honor to state that the number of nationals of other countries than the United States who have been killed in Mexico since President Diaz resigned, as gathered from reports from the representatives of this Government in Mexico, is 927, as follows: Chinese, 471; Spanish, 209; Arabs, 111; British, 38; Italian, 16; French, 14; Japanese, 10; and miscellaneous, 58. Respectfully submitted. \ I .'. Robert Lansing. Department of State, >>; , Washington, December 3, 191^. o ^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 015 829 185 ft * W^ 9t B# Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/destructionofame01unit LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 015 829 185 A