File No. 612.1123/5.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

Department’s telegram October 23, 1 p.m., your October 24, 12 noon. The Department desires you to communicate to the Mexican Government the position of the United States regarding the closure [Page 903] of the ports as instructed in the Department’s said telegram, explaining that the telegram was sent prior to the receipt of news of the recapture of Vera Cruz.

Huntington Wilson.