Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.00/20978

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador

Department of State,
Washington, June 6, 1917.

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I am in receipt of your note of June 2, 1917, in regard to the return to Mexico of the de facto Government’s garrison of Ojinaga, which recently took refuge in the United States, and which is now reported to be at Presidio, Texas.

In reply I am pleased to inform you that I have requested the Secretary of War to instruct the appropriate United States military authorities to permit the men composing the garrison of Ojinaga to return to Mexico.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing