§ 5. Sir J. D. REESasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Carranza-Villa party in Mexico had removed the Dutch sailors who hitherto guarded some of the Tampico oilfields and has made a levy upon the Tampico Chamber of Commerce; and what action is being taken by the United States Government to counteract the effects of its refusal to recognise the de facto government of General Huerta?
§ Sir E. GREYI have no information as to the reported removal of Dutch sailors, but His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington, in consequence of a report received' by the Netherlands Minister at Washington that the Constitutionalists had demanded sums of money from the foreign colony at Tampico, called on the Secretary of State with the Netherlands Minister and represented to him the importance of this matter. The United States Secretary of State informed them that he had already telegraphed to General Carranza urging him to put a stop to such proceedings, and had instructed the United States Consul 2107 at Tampico to communicate in a similar sense with the Constitutionalist General there.