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

File No. 812.00/11622.

The Mexican Embassy to the Department of State.¹³

[Telegram—Translation.]

Mexico City, April 19, 1914.

Mexican Embassy,
Washington, D.C.

Inform His Excellency President Wilson that the Provisional Constitutional President of the Republic of Mexico, desirous of maintaining harmony between the two nations, will not insist on a simultaneous salute and would be satisfied with a reciprocal salute, fired first by the Mexican land battery to the American flag to be raised on the Dolphin in Tampico harbor, to be answered by guns from the Dolphin to the Mexican flag raised on one of our gunboats, on the basis of the protocol personally delivered last night to the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States of America, but not unconditionally as stipulated by the American Government, since this demand is contrary to the dignity and respect to which the Mexican nation is entitled.

[Not signed.]

13. Translation of a telegram from the Mexican Foreign Office to the Mexican Embassy, left at the Department of State April 22, 1914.