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

File No. 812.6363/62.

The British Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

British Embassy,
Washington, May 9, 1914.

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I hasten to thank you for your letter of yesterday’s date in which you enclose copy of a telegram sent by the State Department to its representative at El Paso, Texas, in regard to the establishment of communication between Tampico and the American Fleet; and to inform you in reply that I sent a telegram last night in the sense desired to Sir L. Carden.

I am [etc.]

Cecil Spring Rice

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