812.00/26848: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Mexico (Summerlin)
60. Your 46, January 22, noon. The American Consul at Vera Cruz has reported that Mr. de la Huerta has definitely abandoned his effort to blockade the port of Tampico.
You will advise the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the foregoing and say that this action terminates the temporary mission of the United States cruiser Richmond to Tampico to protect adequately the peaceful and legitimate United States commerce going in and out of that port from interference under any assertions of blockade, and that the Richmond is being withdrawn from Mexican waters.
You will also say in this connection that the reopening of cable communication between Vera Cruz and the United States eliminates the emergency which necessitated the dispatch of the Tacoma to that port, that consequently the United States cruiser Omaha and six destroyers ordered to that port because of the disaster to the Tacoma will be withdrawn from the waters of the Gulf as soon as their services are no longer needed in connection with the rescue of the Tacoma’s crew which probably will be terminated today and that the Prometheus and two tugs, auxiliary vessels of the United States Navy engaged in salvaging the Tacoma, will also be withdrawn as soon as that task is completed.