H.L. Wilson Silent On Rebuke.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 16, 1913:
Anxious to Resign, It Is Said — The British Statement Unofficial.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.— Henry Lane Wilson, the Ambassador to Mexico, declined to-night to make any statement in response to the rebuke administered to him yesterday through the medium of President Wilson's expression of regret to the British Government over the Ambassador's strictures on a statement cabled from London to newspapers in this country and supposed to represent the views of Great Britain in regard to its recognition of Mexico. Mr. Wilson said that he had not determined what his course would be and had no plans of any sort.
    There were reports to-day that Mr. Wilson had decided to insist that the President accept his resignation, to take effect immediately.
    Considerable interest was shown here to-day over a London dispatch, printed in The New York Times this morning, quoting The London Daily News us saying that the reputed statement of the British Government about Ambassador Wilson's alleged part in foreign recognition of Huerta was not an official communication, but a Reuter Agency report.
    Before rebuking Ambassador Wilson, Secretary Bryan sought to ascertain through the British Embassy in this country and the American Embassy in London whether that statement was officially communicated to the press by the British Foreign Office. It was supposed last night when the President's expression of regret was given to the newspapers that the British Government had acknowledged its responsibility for the statement.
    It is now intimated that the statement from London was not an official utterance of the Foreign Office, but represented the views of Sir Edward Grey, the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, expressed in an informal conversation with Walter H. Page, the American Ambassador in London.
    Secretary Bryan to-day would not discuss the point whether the statement was issued officially by the British Foreign Office. He added, however, that the question whether the statement was officially issued, was not essential. It is supposed that he meant that the comments of Ambassador Wilson were indiscreet in themselves without reference to whether they were applied to an utterance of the British Government or not.