File No. 812.00/604.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, December 30, 1910.
Excellency: I have the honor to inform your excellency that I hear from credible private sources that one McQuarters, who domicile is at Dallas, Tex., directs the shipments of arms between El Paso [Page 381] and Eagle Pass, availing himself of all means for his deliveries both by water and by land. The center of the said McQuarters’s operations is in the city of El Paso.
In view of these reports I venture to ask of your excellency that the proper orders be issued through the regular channels, to prevent any violation of the neutrality laws in the sense above indicated.
I renew [etc.],