Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 812.00/865.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

The Department of State has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the memorandum of the 28th ultimo in which the Embassy of Mexico states that a stock of arms and ammunition is stored in Brooklyn by the Bush Terminal Co., consigned to E. D. Maurer, by whom several shipments have been made to the Shelton-Payne Co., of El Paso, Tex., for delivery to Mexican rebels.

The Department has duly noted the embassy’s request that appropriate measures be taken to prevent the delivery of any of these arms to the rebels in Chihuahua, and in this connection refers to its note to the embassy, No. 395, of January 24 last. The embassy’s memorandum has been communicated to the Department of Justice.

Department of State,
Washington, March 8, 1911.