Office of the Historian

File No. 812.63/484

Ambassador Fletcher to the Secretary of State

No. 392
American Embassy,
Mexico City, August 10, 1917.

Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s telegram No. 8, February 24, 1 p.m., instructing that the Government be invited to furnish the Embassy with a list of mining districts which enjoy the necessary facilities, including military protection and adequate transportation to make resumption of work possible, and to state that a note has been received from the Foreign Office in reference to the matter stating that according to a report from the Department of War and Marine, information should not be given regarding the regions in which there are rebels, but only in concrete cases can information be given as to whether a given locality is or is not controlled by the Government.

I have the honor to enclose a copy and translation of the note from the Foreign Office referred to, No. 325, dated August 1, 1917.

I have [etc.]

Henry P. Fletcher
[Inclosure—Translation]

The Foreign Office to Ambassador Fletcher

The Subsecretary of State, in charge of the Office of the Exterior has the honor to state to the American Embassy, with reference to memorandum dated the 26th of February last, in which request was made for information relative to the mining regions controlled by the Government, in order that American proprietors might be enabled to renew their operations therein, that the Department of War and Marine has informed him that information should not be given relative to the regions in which there are rebels, but only in concrete cases can information be given as to whether a given point is or is not controlled by the Government.

Department for Foreign Affairs,
Mexico, August 1, 1917.