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. 812.00/1012.

The Department of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

Referring to the memorandum of the Mexican Embassy of March 20, 1911, the Department of State respectfully replies that it does not perceive, either in the principles established by the so-called neutrality statutes of the United States or by the rules of international law governing this class of transactions, anything that would, under the circumstances of this case as understood by the Department, prohibit the commercial purchase within and shipment from the territory of the United States by private agents of provisions and fodder for the Mexican troops at Ojinaga, Chihuahua.

Department of State,
Washington, March 23, 1911.