File No. 812.00/1599.
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The Secretary of State presents his compliments to his excellency the Mexican ambassador and has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the ambassador’s note No. 1316, of the 2d instant, in which he states that, according to the latest intelligence received by the department of foreign relations, the rebels are showing greater activity on the Texas frontier, between Laredo and Brownsville, as the Mexican consul at Laredo reports a very noticeable movement of arms and ammunition consigned to Laredo and other points, among others Fremont, where a merchant named J. C. Canales is in collusion with the rebels.
In complying with the ambassador’s request that the proper action in the matter be taken the Secretary of State has sent copies of the note to the Secretary of War and to the Attorney General for their information and appropriate action in the premises.
Washington, May 5, 1911.