Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 812.48/1877a.

The Acting Secretary of State to Consul General Hanna.⁹³

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 25, 1914.

As the reasons which influenced this Government heretofore to furnish assistance and transportation to American citizens in Mexico appear to exist no longer, you are instructed to decline hereafter all such applications. So inform all Consuls in your district.

Robert Lansing

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93. Same to Consul Canada at Vera Cruz with instruction to, repeat to Consul at Tampico.