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

File No. 312.62/95.

The German Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Translation.]

Imperial German Embassy,
Newport, August 4, 1914, 6 p.m.

By order of the Imperial Government I have the honor to pray your excellency most kindly to arrange that the protection of German life and property in the Republic of Mexico be formally assumed by the American land forces and war vessels.

Von Haniel

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