Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.00/21477

The Secretary of State to the Secretary of War

Department of State,
Washington, November 22, 1917.

The Secretary of State, presenting his compliments to the Honorable the Secretary of War, has the honor to enclose a translation of a note in which the Mexican Ambassador requests the release of twenty-seven Mexican soldiers who it is stated, when pursued into Texas by malefactors, were arrested there by the American authorities, and to ask that the Ambassador’s request be complied with if no objection is perceived.

Robert Lansing