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

File No. 812.63/454

Ambassador Fletcher to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Embassy,
Mexico City, April 20, 1917, 5 p.m.

113. By circular just published all transactions relative to mining properties made with mining agencies of the State of Oaxaca from June 3, 1915, to March 3, 1916; are declared null and void because the State of Oaxaca refused obedience to the Carranza Government during that time and interested parties are given until June 15 next to renew these transactions with the Department Commerce and Industry.

Fletcher