File No. 812.00/2578.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, December 3, 1911.
Complying with instructions by wire just received from my Government, I beg your excellency to be pleased to interpose good offices to prevent conveyance 5,000 rifles and several thousand cartridges bought in Philadelphia by Reyista Mexican, which are to be delivered express Houston and consigned to Maj. Campos, also Reyista, residing Houston, as telegraphed to Treasury Department by collector customs, Galveston. Matter was brought to the knowledge of clerk Federal court, Houston.
[This telegram was telegraphed on Dec. 3 to the Attorney General.]