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

File No. 312.52/682.

The Secretary of State to the Spanish Ambassador.⁹⁸

Department of State,
Washington, October 23, 1915.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: Referring to previous correspondence in regard to the protection of Spanish property in Mexico, I beg to inform you that the Department is in receipt of two telegrams from the Department’s representative at Torreon, in reply to instructions given him at your request and at the request of the Spanish Vice Consul at San Luis Potosí, in which the representative states that the de facto Government of Mexico has informed him that it desires to deal directly with the accredited Spanish representatives concerning Spanish interests.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing.

98. The same, mutatis mutandis, to the French, Italian, German and British Ambassadors.