Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.504/86

Ambassador Fletcher to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Embassy,
Mexico City, April 27, 1917, 5 p.m.

139. Your telegram No. 131, and in connection with later reports from Tampico, I have received assurances from the acting Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Ministry of War and Marine will be requested at once to order the military commander at Tampico to take immediate steps to protect American life and property.

Fletcher