File No. 812.00/2278.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, August 11, 1911.
Excellency: In reply to your excellency’s note No. 69, of June 29 last, I have the honor to inform you under special instructions received by me from the department of foreign relations of my country that the Government of Mexico appreciates to their full value the Department’s good offices in regard to the suggestion that a decree of political amnesty for the participants in the Lower California disturbances be issued; but it regrets its inability to accede to the friendly suggestion aforesaid, inasmuch as nearly all the disturbers of the peace there are aliens and also on account of their having expressly proposed to separate a part of its territory from the Republic, which acts are denounced by Mexico as grave attacks on the sovereignty and integrity of the country and which therefore must be averted with the full rigor of the law.
I beg, etc.,