File No. 812.00/2959.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.
Washington, March 1, 1912—7 p.m.
The Department has addressed two notes to the Mexican Embassy relating to your February 28, 10 p.m. One states that no act has been proved on the part of Vásquez Gómez which falls within the statutes of the United States; the other, that the suggestion of the Mexican Government as to the prohibition of the exportation of “contraband of war” raises considerations as to whether a state of belligerency exists in Mexico. Otherwise this Government can find no ground for altering the position it assumed last year when Maderistas were in control of Juárez—namely, that exportations to Juárez can not be prohibited.