Looks like a substition cipher; the family of solutions that jumps out to me as a possible clue is "[something] seized Savoy until".
corpus christi.
explanation: looking at the keyboard those spell out TXCC. There's a town Corpus Cristi, Texas...
Can you elaborate, please?
The letters represent locations on a QWERTY keyboard. If you draw out one "word" at a time, you get patterns that look (... if you squint a little) like T X C C.