Apology Surprises Britain.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 1, 1913:
Ambassador Wilson's Criticism Excited No Comment.
    LONDON, Saturday, Aug. 16.— Surprise was caused in England by the news from the United States that Ambassador Page had been instructed to apologize to the British Government for the comments made on British Mexican policy by Henry Lane Wilson, American Ambassador to Mexico. The affair had not excited the slightest attention and the incident has aroused no ill-feeling.
    The British newspapers had ignored Ambassador Wilson's statement, but they printed it yesterday as an explanation of the ground for apology.
    Ambassador Page is not likely to see Sir Edward Grey, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, before next week. Mr. Page attended the Pilgrims' ceremony in Southampton yesterday, and Sir Edward Grey expects to go to the country to-day.
    The Westminster Gazette, the Government organ, says the difficulty between President Wilson and Ambassador Wilson is "purely domestic and will not cause a ripple in the relations between the British and American Governments." It adds: "President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan may have good reasons of their own for not recognizing Provisional President Huerta's Government at the present moment, but they will not take offense at other Governments which have taken a different course, and least of all at us, in the circumstances which have now been disclosed."