File No. 812.00/21679
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Mexico ( Summerlin)
[Telegram]
Washington,
January 26, 1918, 4 p.m.
726. You may announce publicly that entire story covered in despatch mentioned in your 720 is sheer fabrication, and on its face propaganda to disturb existing relations between two friendly Governments.
Polk