File No. 812.00/885.
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Chargé d’Affaires.
Washington, March 29, 1911.
Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of Señor de la Barra’s note No. 1018 of the 6th instant, in which he calls attention to the increased [Page 442] activities of the revolutionary sympathizers on the American side of the border, and states that the Mexican embassy is of the opinion that the Government of the United States would greatly assist by issuing some recommendation of a general public character that the Federal authorities should take vigorous measures against the movement of which the ambassador speaks.
In reply you are informed that it is hoped that the measures which were taken on the same date as the ambassador’s dispatch will have a beneficial result.
With respect to that portion of the ambassador’s note in which he speaks of the interview between Capt. C. S. Babcock, of the United States Army, and Simon Bertholdt, I have the honor to inform you that in a telegraphic report dated the 14th ultimo, made to Gen. Bliss, commanding general, Department of California, and communicated by him to the War Department, Capt. Babcock says:
With my permission and under an armed cavalry escort, commanded by Lieut. Lininger, Simon Bertholdt, unarmed, was brought from border to cavalry camp last Saturday. This was done to enable me personally to explain to him my orders covering enforcement neutrality laws. After 10 minutes conversation he was escorted back to boundary. Leyva has never openly crossed boundary and Bertholdt only once, as described.
Accept [etc.],