Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 812.6363/178.

Consul Canada to the Secretary of State.

American Consulate,
Vera Cruz, March 8, 1915.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the Department’s telegraphic instructions of January 13, 1915, protesting against the application to Americans and other foreigners of the decree suspending the operation of oil wells, and to transmit enclosed herewith the reply of the Constitutionalist Foreign Office to my representations.

I have [etc.]

Wm. W. Canada.

[Inclosure—Translation.]

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Department of Foreign Relations,
Vera Cruz, January 14, 1915.

Mr. Consul: Answering your note of yesterday’s date, in which in the name of your Government you formulate a protest with regard to the suspension of work on oil wells, I inform you that due note has been taken of your protest.

Please accept [etc.]

M. Dávalos.