Office of the Historian

File No. 812.6363/184.

Consul Canada to the Secretary of State.

No. 1174.]
American Consulate,
Vera Cruz, March 22, 1915.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s telegraphic instructions of February 16, relative to complaints of the Huasteca Petroleum Company and the Mexican Petroleum Company regarding molestations in their operations and in the shipping of oil, and to transmit enclosed herewith the reply of the Constitutionalist Foreign Office to my representations in the premises.

I have [etc.]

Wm. W. Canada.
[Inclosure—Translation.]

The Foreign Office to Consul Canada.

Department of Foreign Relations,
Vera Cruz, March 9, 1915.

Mr. Consul: The Department of the Treasury and Public Credit, in its note No. 5977 dated March 2, informs this Department as follows:

I have received your despatch dated the 19th of February last, relative to the representation which Consul William Canada makes with regard to the complaint of the Huasteca Petroleum Company and the Mexican Petroleum Company. For your information I beg to state that it is not true that those companies are prohibited from embarking their fuel, as on the 16th of February, which is the date of Mr. Canada’s note, the companies referred to were embarking petroleum; and neither is it true that those industries are forbidden to continue operating until a new decree is issued.

Which I have the honor to transcribe to you in answer to your note of the 16th of last February, availing [etc.]

Urueta.