File No. 812.00/3054.
The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Mexico, March 5, 1912—2 p.m.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has again called my attention most urgently to the circumstance that the Mexican Government is imperiled by the enormous importation of arms and ammunition through the port of Ciudad Juárez, and asked me to call the attention of my Government to the fact that the belligerency of the Madero revolutionary movement was practically recognized by the Díaz Government at a certain stage of its progress, but that the present Mexican Government has no intention of treating with the rebels in arms but intends fighting to the bitter end, realizing that they are fighting not only for the maintenance of the present Government but for the integrity of Mexico, as the President’s advisers believe that only anarchy could follow the fall of this Government; in that event they doubt that the Government of the United States could deny protection to its great interests in Mexico and its duty to civilization by refusing to intervene. Mr. Calero asked that our Government might find a way to stop the importation of arms and ammunition in some thoroughly effectual manner.