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. 812.00/1023.

The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Memorandum—Translation.]

This embassy has private information to the effect that the I. C. Hirsch Iron, Steel & Rail Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, whose address is International Building, 226 East Fourth Street, holds a stock of 15,000 Springfield rifles and 125,000 cartridges and is ready to sell the rifles for $1.85, without, bayonet, or $2.09, with bayonet and belt, and the cartridges for $24.15 a thousand, or $21.40 for the whole lot. The factory announces that it has received offers for the purchase of those arms.

Embassy of Mexico,
Washington, March 18, 1911.