Washington, May 14.
The United States is expected to refuse any request to act as media~ for between Mexico and Great Britain, whose diplomatic relations have been severed, The report of the rupture: was received here with surprise, The rupture, State Department officials declare, may make a settlement of America's oil claims against Mexico more difficult, The United States, they add, would be placed in a trying position if Mexico were to ask the American Government to handle her representation in Great Britain,—Reuter.
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