Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.113/1922a.

The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 17, 1913.

The American Consul at Nuevo Laredo having reported that insurrectionary forces have captured that city and are in full possession of all public buildings, I have the honor to request¹ that you be good enough to issue telegraphic instructions to the appropriate customs officials to withhold shipments of arms or munitions of war consigned to points in Mexico via Laredo, Texas, whether or not they have already been excepted by the President from the prohibition of his proclamation of March 14, 1912, until I shall again communicate with you. The President is being informed of this request.

Knox.

1. Same request, mutatis mutandis, made February 18 with regard to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, also in the hands of insurrectionary forces. See also the request of February 11.