File No. 812.00/21924
The Mexican Ambassador ( Bonillas) to the Secretary of State
Excellency: I have the honor to inform your excellency that the Mexican Government has knowledge of the activities of various reactionary and Villista elements who are conspiring at El Paso, Texas, against the Constitutional Government of Mexico and are attempting to send an armed expedition to Mexican territory, thus fomenting disturbances whose effects have been lately felt on both sides of the border.
I enclose two clippings of March 31 last, from the newspaper La Republica1 which is published at El Paso, Texas, in which is seen the assertion that the Washington Government has officially declared that it will have absolutely nothing to do with President Carranza and his administration, and by way of coercion and reprisals will take no notice of other rebel movements against the Executive of Mexico.
In bringing the foregoing to your excellency’s knowledge I have the honor to say to you that the Mexican Government will highly [Page 562] appreciate an explicit declaration of the American Government on the subject, and also an active prosecution in the United States of those rebels who are the enemies of both countries.
I avail [etc.]
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