612.112/58: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Mexico (Summerlin)
108. Consul Vera Cruz reports customs authorities refuse to permit Cuyamel Fruit Company to load cargo for New Orleans because it carried on its service with that port during revolutionary régime; that agent of national railways declines to allow Arbuckle Brothers and Westfeldt Brothers to ship coffee unless they repay freight charges already paid for transportation to railways while operated by revolutionists, and that local authorities claim that in these matters they are acting under instruction from Mexican Government.
Bring foregoing urgently to attention of Foreign Office and say that Government United States can hardly credit statement that Mexican Government is taking such a stand which is directly contrary to the applicable rules and principles of international law and sincerely hopes that Vera Cruz authorities are laboring under misapprehension which Mexican Government will hasten to remove thus doing away with the existing obstructions of international trade which are causing large losses to interested American citizens.
You will request to be advised promptly as to action taken by Mexican Government.