Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 812.113/3704a.

The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, October 9, 1915.

This Department requests that you instruct the Collectors of Customs at El Paso, Texas, and other border ports to the west of that city, to detain, until the receipt of further advices from this Department, all shipments of arms and ammunition intended for use in Mexico.

Robert Lansing.