File No. 812.00/589.
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.
The Department of State has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the confidential memorandum of the Embassy of Mexico, dated [Page 382] December 16, 1910, and received by the Department of State on December 27, 1910, in which the embassy states that the Government of Mexico is advised that 200 insurgents have crossed the international boundary near Presidio, Tex., and are at Ojinaga, Mexico, and suggest the advisability of stationing United States troops at Presidio, both to keep other insurgents from crossing the border and to arrest those seeking to escape into the United States.
This information was telephoned to the Department of State by the Embassy of Mexico several days ago, and was immediately communicated by telephone to the War Department and the Department of Justice. Copies of the embassy’s memorandum have to-day been sent to the same departments.
Washington, December 31, 1910.