File No. 812.00/666.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Mexican Chargé Affaires.
Washington, January 28, 1911.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the ambassador’s note of the 23d instant, in which, by direction of the Mexican foreign office, he communicated to the Department a report that Mexican insurgents recently unloaded arms and ammunition in the United States, near Guadalupe, and took them into Mexico, and in which he requested the Department to take note of this matter and give such directions as might be deemed expedient.
In this relation I beg to refer to the Department’s note of the 25th instant, in which attention was invited to the fact that the mere exportation of arms is not forbidden either by international law or the neutrality statutes of the United States.
The ambassador’s note has, however, been referred to the Department of Justice for investigation of its subject matter.
Accept [etc.],