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

File No. 312.51/138.

The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, August 31, 1915.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: Referring to previous correspondence in regard to 5,500 bales of cotton at Torreon, Mexico, consigned to French firms in Mexico, I am pleased to inform you that the Department is in receipt of a telegram from the American Consular Agent at Torreon, dated August 28, in which he states that the French Consular Agent at Torreon has informed him that the cotton in question is still in storage at Torreon, under the protection of the French Consular Agent. The telegram adds that the French Consular Agent knows nothing of any contemplated confiscation of the cotton.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing.