File No. 711.1216M/232.
The Mexican Embassy to the Department of State.
Washington, February 16, 1911.
The memorandum handed by the Hon. Mr. Wilson to the chargé d’affaires ad interim at the conference to which he was called with Señor Casasús on the 14th instant, and bearing on the Mexican Government’s order to Col. Don Celso Vega to repair to the seat of the Colorado River works for their protection, was forwarded by wire to Mexico.
The department of foreign relations informs the embassy that there undoubtedly was some lack of clearness in the information received by the Department of State, for, as orally stated by the chargé d’affaires ad interim, Col. Vega will not have to go out of Mexican territory to reach his destination, and therefore the Government of Mexico believes that, this point once established, Col. Vega or any other officer in command may draw arms, ammunition, and stores from Yuma without this being made the subject of a special and restrictive stipulation, inasmuch as the Mexican Government may freely make purchases of this kind anywhere in the United States.
The Government of this country has been and is now a good friend of Mexico, and all its measures have been prompted by the most noble sentiments. And for that reason the Government of Mexico believes that in this case there was some confusion in the data furnished to the Department, and that it was the cause of the restriction of which notice was given.