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

File No. 812.6363/207

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Querétaro, January 26, 1916, noon.

Department’s January 22. Oil pipe line. General Carranza informed me personally the pipe line in question would not directly or indirectly affect the oil rights of American citizens; that it was intended to be a public carrier to transport oil to the coast for any individual or company that paid for the service.

Silliman