Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.51/1014.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 25, 1912.

As long as the other Governments concerned do likewise, the Department must adhere to the position stated in the instruction to you dated July 2. In other respects the company must use its own discretion.

Knox.