File No. 812.00/2665.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

[Memorandum—Translation.]

The Secretary of State presents his compliments to his excellency the Mexican Ambassador, and has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of his note No. 799, dated December 30, 1911,1 requesting the good offices of the Department of State to cause the local and Federal authorities of Arizona to tighten the vigilance they have been instructed to maintain for the observance of the neutrality statutes of the United States, and stating that recent reports to the Mexican Government indicate that both in Arizona and in California adherents of or sympathizers with the Flores Magón faction constitute a disturbing element, ever ready to cover up or to support a movement against the Mexican Government.

The Department of State has taken pleasure in transmitting to the Attorney General for such action, if any, as he may see fit to take thereon, a copy of the translation of the Mexican Embassy’s note under acknowledgment.

  1. See For. Rel., 1911, p. 525. This is the note referred to in the communication to the Attorney General above.