File No. 812.00/826.
[Memorandum—Translation.]
The press of San Francisco, Cal., says that one Richard Ferris is organizing a filibustering expedition of Americans to invade Lower California. The organizer announced by telegraph his purpose to the President of the Mexican Republic.
Without other data, the Government of Mexico does not consider the press reports to be accurate, but deems it its duty to bring them to the notice of the Department of State and so instructed the embassy yesterday, so that in the event of their being substantiated it may be pleased to direct such measures as it may deem expedient to avert an attack on Mexico’s autonomy.
For its part the embassy knows that although Ferris’s scheme is ridiculed by the press of California, there are many responses to the call of the promoter, who has published notices in the New York Herald and the New York World soliciting the services of 1,000 men for a military expedition.
Washington, February 16, 1911.