Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 812.00/1011.

[Memorandum—Translation.]

The local authorities of Del Rio have stopped a contraband shipment of 30 guns and 19,000 cartridges intended for the Mexican rebels; the embassy of the Republic hastens to bring this to the knowledge of the Department of State, with a request that it be pleased to make such recommendations as it may see fit to prevent the said implements of war from reaching their destination.

Mexican Embassy,
Washington, March 20, 1911.