File No. 812.00/2483.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, November 10, 1911.
The Embassy of Mexico presents its compliments to the Department of State, and with the due reserves has the honor to inform [Page 521] it that the Government of Mexico has serious reason for believing that the partisans of Gen. Bernardo Reyes, who is at San Antonio, Tex., are preparing within the territory of the United States an armed movement to stir up disturbances in the Mexican Republic, with men who are said to be organizing in this country, whence they would draw their war materials.
As the embassy believes that the Government of the United States is greatly interested in not having any disturbance of public order in the Mexican Republic, and as any attempt in that direction starting from within the United States would constitute a more or less direct violation of the American neutrality laws, the embassy ventures to ask that the Department of State will see fit to issue suitable orders to prevent the disturbances above referred to, confident that no matter what the plans of Gen. Reyes’ partisans may be, the fear inspired by a determined attitude of the American authorities will bring about the dissolution of the nucleus of the conspiracy that has been set up in San Antonio, Tex., to the detriment of the most respectable interests seeking development within the shelter of a firm and lasting peace.