Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 812.00/2290.

The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

Washington, August 17, 1911.

No. 224.]

Excellency: Under express instructions of my Government I have the honor to apply to your excellency and to inform you that a person by the name of Pino Suárez¹ is trying to send an expedition from New Orleans to some place in Mexico with war material which is said to include 3 rapid-fire guns and 60,000 cartridges.

I have also received instructions to inform the Department under your excellency’s most worthy charge that Ricardo Flores Magón, the agitator who is operating in the State of California, has bought arms and ammunition to recruit men in the Imperial Valley.

I have to express my profound thanks to your excellency for kindly using your good offices to frustrate attempts of the aforesaid disturbers of the public peace.

I renew [etc.],

Gilbert Crespo y Martínez.

1. Governor of Yucatan and candidate for Vice President.