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

File No. 812.00/18478

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American Consulate,
Tampico, June 18, 1916, 10 p.m.

Official communication from General N. to Colonel River to-day prohibits landing of naval officers and men for any reason except to act as messenger carrying between naval commander and consulate and in this case only when messenger is accompanied to and from consulate by officer of Mexican forces, a condition which I oppose but which will probably be maintained by General N. Communication between consulate and ships is thus seriously hindered.

Dawson