File No. 812.00/1284.
[Untitled]
Washington, April 9, 1911.
Excellency: The authorities of the State of Chihuahua report to the Federal Government the constant passing of men and war material from El Paso, Tex., to Guadalupe. The activities of the disturbers of the peace have lately assumed such proportions that it is feared that Ciudad Juarez may be attacked by the organization recently formed around that place.
[Page 452]The Government of Mexico, appreciating to its value the very efficacious cooperation of the Government of the United States for the prevention of public disturbances in our country by groups that would not organize except for the means they expect to find in American territory, calls, through this embassy, the attention of the Government of the United States to the necessity of establishing a stricter vigilance at El Paso, because it knows that foremost of the purposes of this Government is that to repress filibustering severely and to prevent sympathizers and associates of the Mexican rebels from finding facilities for their schemes against established order.
Having thus complied with my instructions, I avail myself of this opportunity to offer to your excellency the assurances of the most profound gratitude for the benevolent attention you have always and are still giving to a matter which bears upon physical and moral interests very worthy of the care both Governments bestow upon them.
I express, etc.,