File No. 812.00/1600.
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.
The Department of State presents its compliments to the Mexican Embassy, and has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the embassy’s third-person note of the 3d instant, stating that the Mexican Government has learned, through the correspondence of a Madero sympathizer at El Paso, Tex., that the armistice is being taken advantage of to send arms and ammunition into Mexican territory; and that it is now attempted to send over a lot of 400 rifles with a large supply of cartridges, shipped in three wagons escorted by rebel troops which are to cross the river, if they meet with no obstacle, at a distance from El Paso which the embassy conjectures to be from 8 to 30 miles.
Copies of the embassy’s memorandum have been sent to the Secretary of War and to the Attorney General, for their information and appropriate action in the premises.
Washington, May 5, 1911.