412.00/99: Telegram

The Chargé in Mexico (Summerlin) to the Acting Secretary of State

2081. Secretary of Mexican Claims Commission today stated that the total amount of claims presented as mentioned in Embassy’s telegram 2065 April 26, 2 p.m. included only claims presented to the commission now in session, but that claims to the extent of approximately 43,000,000 pesos had been presented to the former claims commission18 [Page 636] for damages suffered during the Madero revolution and that all these claims have been taken over by the new commission.

Summerlin
  1. Established June 30, 1911; see Foreign Relations, 1912, pp. 934 ff.