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

File No. 312.11/8185

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Department of State,
Washington, November 14, 1916, 4 p.m.

550. Your 558, November 11, 1 p.m. Point out to Foreign Office that it failed to reply to Department’s request to be advised of action contemplated for protection American property, and that such reply is desired at once.

Also request Foreign Office to explain how it can be said that there has been uninterrupted tranquillity in State of Sonora, in view of depredations upon American property set forth by you in representations to which Foreign Office has replied.

Lansing