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

File No. 812.63/128.

The Acting Secretary of State to Mr. A. J. McQuatters.

Department of State,
Washington, July 8, 1915.

Sir: The Department has received your communication of June 26, 1915, confirming your telegram of the same date, concerning the recent decree of Francisco Villa in regard to the mining property in territory controlled by him.

Your attention is called to the Department’s telegram of June 29, 1915, informing you that it had telegraphically instructed Mr. George C. Carothers, a special representative of the Department of State, to make an immediate report on the result of his efforts to procure the repeal of this mining decree.

I am [etc.]

For the Acting Secretary of State:

Wilbur J. Carr.