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

File No. 812.00/21477

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador

Department of State,
Washington, November 22, 1917.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of November 16, in which you request that twenty-seven Mexican soldiers, who were pursued into Texas by malefactors, and were arrested there by the American authorities, be released.

In reply I have the honor to inform you that I have taken pleasure in commending your request to the favorable consideration of the Secretary of War.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing