Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 812.00/864.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

The Department has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the confidential memorandum, dated the 1st instant, in which the Embassy of Mexico states that the Government of Mexico has heard of the miscarriage of certain papers taken from the rebel Martin Casillas, at El Paso, Tex., and forwarded to the district attorney in that city, which papers the embassy describes as letters from Abraham Gonzales to Soto and Orozco, dated February 11, and communications of Francisco I. Madero to his brother Raul, all relating to the movement headed by Madero and being organized in American territory.

The Department of States has confidentially communicated the memorandum of the Embassy of Mexico to the Attorney General.

Department of State,
Washington, March 6, 1911.