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

File No. 812.6363/61a.

The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington , May 8, 1914 .

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I enclose herewith a copy of a telegram which the Department sent to its representative at El Paso, Texas, on the 8th instant, pointing out the great necessity of establishing and maintaining a reliable means of communication between this Government’s ships outside the bar near Tampico and its consular representative on the mainland, for humanitarian reasons as well as for those of policy, special attention being called to the desire to assist in preserving the important oil fields in and around Tampico.

I should be glad if you would communicate to the British Minister in Mexico City the text of the telegram, and ask him to make such representations to General Huerta as may induce the latter to consent to the establishment of communication between Tampico and the American fleet, on the lines indicated in the telegram.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing

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