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

File No. 312.115/311

Ambassador Fletcher to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Embassy,
Mexico City, June 25, 1917, 11 a.m.

270. Your telegram No. 252. My telegram [omission]. Unofficially but reliably informed that instructions have been sent to the Governor of Sonora to leave pertenencia tax matter in abeyance for the present and to endeavor to compose difficulties with copper mine owners.

Fletcher