Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — RESPONSE FROM MEXICO [ARTICLE]

RESPONSE FROM MEXICO

Formal Reply to This Government's Protest. Not Yet Received but Believed to Contain Satisfactory Assurances of Future Care. Washington, April 21. United States government officials believe that the formal reply which Mexico has prepared to this government’s protest against fighting along thd border contains assurances that definite restrictive measures have been adopted for the future guidance of the Mexican federal forces. In so far as the note contains assurances of this character it is satisfactory to this government, but in other respects it will probably tend to aggravate the relations between the two countries. President Taft and officials of the state department contend that they already received from Mexico all that they asked, which was a promise that that government would take steps to protect lives on this side of the border against Mexican bullets. Ambassador Wilson has advised the government at Washington that the Mexican government has issued orders in accordance with their demands.