Mr. Clayton to Mr.
Moore.
Legation of the United States,
Mexico, May 11,
1898.
No. 420.]Sir: Referring to my Nos. 399 and 411, of the
30th ultimo and 6th instant, respectively, inclosing copies of the
circulars issued by several departments of the Mexican Government
enjoining the strictest neutrality regarding the war between the United
States and Spain, I now have the honor to inclose copy and translation
of a notice published in the Diario Oficial by the department of war and
marine, in the name of the President, ordering that no vessel carrying
provisions or money for either of the belligerent powers be dispatched,
and that public reunions, with the object of collecting means to assist
either of the belligerent powers, be prevented.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 1.—Translation.—From Diario
Oficial, May 7, 1898.]
Department of War and Marine
.
The President of the Republic has ordered, notwithstanding the
express prohibition in the first instruction of the circular which I
communicated to you privately on the 29th ultimo, inclosing the note
of the minister of relations containing said instruction, that I
especially charge you, as I now do, that for the purpose of
establishing as a fact the strict neutrality of the Republic in the
Spanish-American conflict, no vessel carrying provisions or money
for either of the belligerent powers be, under any circumstances,
dispatched, and that public reunions with the object of collecting
means to assist either of the belligerent powers be prevented.
I communicate the same to you for your information and
observance.
Liberty and constitution. A copy of the original.
Alejandro Pezo.
Mexico, May 4,
1898.
