Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.512/1188

The Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

[Telegram—Extract]

Department of State,
Washington, May 12, 1916, 4 p.m.

76. Continue your best efforts to obtain such reductions in pertenencia and export taxes as will be of greatest possible benefit to American mining interests.

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