File No. 812.00/21679
The Chargé in Mexico ( Summerlin) to the Secretary of State
720. El Democrata published an extra to-night stating that the Government of the United States is perfecting arrangements of armed intervention in Mexico, that Cuba and Canada have been invited by the White House to participate in occupying Tampico, Vera Cruz, and Progreso, thereby assuring the defense of the Gulf of Mexico against probable incursions of German submarines, and that the American Government has threatened to suspend food shipments to Cuba in case of refusal to participate. The despatch dated to-day purports to have been furnished by the Spanish American News Agency at Laredo.