812.00/26840: Telegram
The Chargé in Mexico (Summerlin) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:08 p.m.]
46. Your telegram number 45, January 19, 7 p.m.14 Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs replies under date of January 21:
“The Mexican Government expects that the anomalous situation prevailing at Tampico will terminate very soon since it has already adopted the necessary measures, as your Government knows, not only to prevent the carrying out of the blockade at Tampico but also to protect the legitimate commerce of the countries friendly to Mexico. I expect therefore that the operations of the cruiser Richmond, which surely will be exercised only provisionally and outside of territorial waters, will cease to be necessary in a very short time”.
Today’s local press published articles to the effect that “the American war vessels must remain outside of the territorial waters of Mexico”.