Office of the Historian

812.2311/430

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Chargé (Téllez)

Washington, January 19, 1924.

Sir: I am in receipt of your note of January 16, 1924,4 in which you request that permission be granted for your Government to transport approximately two thousand Mexican troops, together with their arms and ammunition and impedimenta from Naco, Arizona, across American territory to El Paso or Laredo, Texas, for service in regions in Mexico where they are needed for protective purposes.

In reply I beg to inform you that permission has today been granted for these troops to proceed over American soil from Naco to El Paso, with the understanding that they shall travel unarmed while in the United States, their arms and ammunition being sent as baggage.5

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
William Phillips
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Two similar requests were later granted by the Department.↩