No. 255.
Señor Romero to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
[Translation.]
Legation of Mexico in the United States,
Washington, September 5, 1882. (Received September
7.)
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform you
that, having duly transmitted to my government the note of your
Department of the 27th of April last, relative to the propriety of
concerted action on the part of the military authorities of Mexico and
those of the United States on the frontier, in the pursuit of Indians
hostile to both countries, I have received a reply from the Government
of Mexico, in which it informs me that the war department has given
orders to the military commanders on the frontier to act in concert with
the commanders of the United States forces in pursuit of the
savages.
I herewith inclose a copy of a communication which I have received on
this subject from the department of foreign relations of Mexico.
I avail, &c.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
Department of State and of Foreign
Relations,
Mexico, July 28,
1882.
The secretary of war has addressed to me, under date of the 19th
instant, the communication which I insert below:
“I have read your note of the 26th of May last, in which you were
pleased to transcribe that which had been addressed to you on the
27th of April by our minister in the United States, relative to the
appearance near Janos of a party of savages, and to the
recommendation made in connection therewith as to the desirability
of mutual co-operation on the part of the American and Mexican
forces on the frontier in pursuing the Apaches, for the obtainment
of favorable results in the campaign; and in reply, I have the honor
to inform you, by order of the President of the republic, that
although our troops have repeatedly routed the savages, always
succeeding in driving
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them
from our frontiers, as your department may see by the dispatches
heretofore transmitted to it, the military commanders in that zone
are under instructions, in operating against the Indians, when this
is necessary, to act in concert with the commanders of the American
forces; and that, as I informed you in a separate communication, I
this day transcribe to Generals G. Treviño Carlos Fuero, José G.
Carbo, and Bernardo Reyes, the note from your department of the 10th
instant relative to the treaty which permits the troops of both
nations to cross their respective boundary lines in pursuit of
Indians.”
I transcribe it to you for your information, renewing to you,
&c.
