File No. 812.00/586.
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.
Washington, December 29, 1910.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note, No. 494, of the 23d instant, in which [etc.].
In reply I have the honor to inform your excellency that your earlier telephonic message on the 23d instant, making the same statement and the same request, was at once communicated by this Department to the proper American authorities on the Mexican frontier. The general nature of their reply, which was communicated to your excellency by telephone on the 24th instant, was that the American consul at Ciudad Juárez, the commanding officer at Fort Bliss, and the representatives along the border of the Department of Justice and of the Treasury were in daily conference with one another; that the inspectors were extremely vigilant; that no infractions of the neutrality laws were proven; that rumors of the passing of bands of revolutionists from El Paso to Ciudad Juárez were without foundation; that the Mexican authorities had apprehended no one and were amply prepared to arrest offenders if the rumors had been true; that every rumor was being investigated not only by the American authorities but by newspapers; and that none of these rumors had been found to be well founded.
Accept, etc.,