812.24/604
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador ( Téller )
Excellency: Referring to Your Excellency’s note of June 29, 1927,72 and to your conversation this morning at the Department of State, in relation to a shipment of 211 rifles, caliber 30–40, and 36,000 rounds of ammunition therefor, intended for the use of the customs authorities at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, which the Standard Export and Supply Company desires to ship through the port of Laredo, Texas, I am pleased to inform you that the Collector of Customs at Laredo has today been instructed, by telegraph, to permit this shipment to proceed to its destination.
It does not appear from the shipper’s application for an export license that the 29 revolvers, caliber 38, consigned to Emilio A. Combaluzier, of Mexico City, which you also mentioned this morning, are intended for the use of your Government’s customs officials. Nevertheless, in view of the importance which your Government attaches to the release of this shipment, I take pleasure in informing you that, after careful consideration of the matter, the Department has decided to make an exception in this case and has therefore today [Page 245] mailed license No. 6287 to Messrs. Smith & Wesson, of Springfield, Massachusetts, authorizing that firm to export the 29 revolvers in question.
Accept [etc.]
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