812.24/592
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador (Téller)
The Secretary of State refers to the note dated July 6, 1927, from His Excellency, the Ambassador of Mexico, regarding the desire of the Mexican Government to ship to Mexico certain arms and ammunition, the permission for which had not been granted by the Department of State.
The Secretary of State is now happy to advise the Ambassador of Mexico that permission has been given to the Ward Line of New York to export to Mexico five cases of guns and one case of bayonets, consigned to Jefe de Hacienda de Vera Cruz, this shipment having arrived in New York from Antwerp, Belgium, on the steamship Arabic, December [Page 246] 27, 1926, and that E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Incorporated, of Wilmington, Delaware, has also been authorized to export twenty-five tons of powder intended for the Mexican Department of War and Marine, referred to in the note of June 29, 1927, from the Secretary of State to His Excellency, the Ambassador of Mexico.73
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