File No. 812.00/1261.
The Mexican Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to the Secretary of State.
Washington, April 7, 1911.
Excellency: The ambassador of the United States to Mexico has applied to my Government asking protection for the consul at [Page 450] Laredo, Tamaulipas, and the American citizens residing in that city, no doubt on account of some rumor of impending trouble.
The department of foreign relations this day informs the embassy that perfect peace prevails at Nuevo Laredo and that there is no apprehension of any attack by the rebels, unless it should come from the territory of Texas, for which reason it instructs me to bring this to your excellency’s knowledge and to ask that, if there be no objection thereto, you may be pleased to issue your orders calculated to prevent armed groups of Americans or Mexicans from crossing into the vicinity of Laredo from Texas, if there should be any filibustering expedition contemplated; no information to that effect, however, has reached the Government of Mexico.
I take [etc.],