File No. 312.41/112.
The British Embassy to the Department of State.
memorandum.
The British Ambassador presents his compliments to the Secretary of State and has the honour to thank him for the information contained in his letter of the 21st February135 and also for the promptness and courtesy with which, on the Ambassador’s representations, instructions were dispatched to the agents of the State Department to use their good offices with Villa.
The Secretary of State has no doubt observed that the information which he is good enough to forward presents certain difficulties. It is also in parts in contradiction with information which has reached this Embassy.
The British Ambassador is confident that the Secretary of State will cause a full and impartial enquiry to be made into all the circumstances of the case, and in view of the threatening language used by Villa and the fact that no other foreign power has the means of communicating with him, that he continue to exert his influence in the most unmistakable manner in the cause of humanity.
Washington , February 22, 1914.
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