File No. 812.00/922.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador, in New York.
Washington, March 13, 1911.
Your message, which reached me yesterday through Señor Pereyra, was promptly forwarded to the President1 who charges me to say to you that he greatly regrets that the calling of the United States war vessels at Mexican ports should give rise to possible misconstruction, and that their going was not prompted by the slightest unfriendly purpose or feeling toward the Mexican Government. To avoid any further misgiving on this point he has directed that they call only for coal and leave Mexican ports promptly. The Yorktown is on the way to Panama to relieve the Princeton, which has been ordered to a home port.
The President directs me to repeat to your excellency that our troops are not mobilizing or holding maneuvers on boundary, but that, as explained in his interview with you, they will be near enough and sufficient in number to permit more and larger detachments than heretofore to patrol the boundary and prevent insurrectionary expeditions from American soil against the Mexican Government. We shall be glad to have you continue to give us information to help us in this task.
- At Augusta, Ga.↩