File No. 812.00/1880.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, May 19, 1911.
Excellency: Under instructions from my Government I have the honor to apply to the department under your very worthy charge with a request that it be pleased to take such measures as may be deemed appropriate to the end of intimidating, by some of the effective means permitted by law, the agents who are enlisting filibusters near the boundary line for the purpose of taking them into Lower California, as frequently reported by the local press without anybody questioning the truth of such reports.
Among the most active promoters of this filbustering movement is Ricardo Flores Magón, who has his headquarters at Los Angeles, whence he went to Lower California to establish a customhouse and then returned to Los Angeles, where he is acting in concert with Mexicans and Americans who have neither a fixed residence nor interests of any kind in the Mexican territory into which they make their incursions.
I tender in advance to your excellency the expression of my thanks [etc.],