Mexico declares neutral

Declaration of Neutrality in the European War, 25 September 1914.

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The First Chief of the Constitutional Executive, charged with the executive power of the union, declares and notifies to all whom it may concern, that Mexico will observe strict neutrality in the armed war with exists between Austria-Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Montenegro, Russia and Serbia.

In consequence of this declaration the necessary measures have been dicated in order that the stipulations contains in the convention concerning the duties and rights of neutral powers in case of maritime warfare, concluded at The Hague, 18 October 1907, may be dully fulifilled.

Mexico, 25 September 1914.