File No. 812.00/1258.
The Mexican Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.
Washington, April 8, 1911.
Excellency: Gen. Don Gonzalo Luque has experienced difficulties in receiving ammunition at Ojinaga, Chihuahua, due to the fact that some subordinate authority of this country, probably through an erroneous interpretation of the laws of the United States, prevents the transit of articles intended for military operations in our country for the national army.
The department of foreign relations believes this prohibition to be wholly foreign to the views and purposes of the Government of the United States and instructs me so to inform your excellency and to ask, as I do, as urgently as the case demands, that suitable orders be sent for the information of the authorities who hinder the free transit of ammunition purchased in the territory of the United States by agents of the Government of Mexico.
My Government hopes that the Government of this country, animated as it is by the most benevolent sentiments, will take into account the grave difficulties of the commander of the garrison at Ojinaga, to which the Embassy of Mexico has referred in some previous note, to order measures that will remove the obstacles herein referred to.
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