Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.001 C23/7

Ambassador Fletcher to the Secretary of State

No. 510

American Embassy,
Mexico, September 26, 1917.

Sir: I have the honor to report that, in compliance with the Department’s instruction number 285 of August 31, 1917, I have to-day placed in the hands of President Carranza, President Wilson’s acknowledgment of the letter whereby President Carranza announced his assumption of the office of President of the United Mexican States.

I have [etc.]

Henry P. Fletcher