Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.113/4266a

The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, June 19, 1916.

Please telegraph collectors of customs to hold up all shipments of munitions of war to Mexico, regardless of recent permits granted by this Department or by the President.

Robert Lansing