File No. 812.6363/54b.

The Secretary of State to Consul Letcher.

[Telegram.]

Represent to Carranza that Department is informed that in the Huasteca district eighty miles south of Tampico, territory said to be controlled by the Constitutionalists, Americans in charge of oil wells were, after returning there, not allowed to remain and have been denied protection, whereas more favorable treatment is accorded to foreigners other than Americans. Please request him to give instructions to his commanders in that section to the end that they will afford protection to all foreigners, including Americans, in that important oil-producing district. Make same representations regarding Los Esteros district, about thirty miles north of Tampico.

Bryan
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