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

File No. 838.00/1411

Chargé Mayer to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Port au Prince, September 29, 1916, 2 p.m.

Your September 27, 4 p.m. Haitian Government thought it was to take over public works October 1. Informed Minister unofficially this morning that, according to information from the Department of State, situation relative to public works to remain in statu quo for the present. Minister for Foreign Affairs said that he intended to instruct Minister at Washington to ask for explanation.

Advised Oberlin substance of last paragraph your September 27, 4 p.m.

Mayer