File No. 812.00/1081.
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Chargé d’Affaires.
Referring to the memorandum of the Embassy of Mexico of the 20th ultimo and subsequent correspondence regarding the purchase in the United States by private agents of supplies for Gen. Luque’s command at Ojinaga, the Department of State has the honor to inform the embassy that it has received from the. Secretary of the Treasury, to whom copies of the correspondence were sent, a letter in which he states, in substance, that the Treasury Department has not prohibited the ordinary exportation of supplies across the Rio Grande, but has only enforced the regular and usual requirements that exportations and importations be made through the established customs ports.
Washington, April 7, 1911.