Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 812.113/1479.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 16, 1912—5 p.m.

Your December 15, 10 a.m. You will say to the Mexican Foreign Office that although arms and ammunition are for convenience consigned to the Consuls at Hermosillo and Durango, they are intended for the protection of individual American citizens, calling attention to the fact that the Mexican Government permitted the entry of similar shipments to Hermosillo, Tampico and Guadalajara, and in the case of the two Hermosillo shipments provided military escort.

Knox.