File No. 812.00/1374.
The Mexican Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.
Washington, April 15, 1911.
Excellency: On receipt of the Department’s note No. 479 of the 10th instant, Ambassador Zamacona ordered its contents telegraphed to the department of foreign relations.
Awaiting its answer, which will soon come, I hasten to say that the President of the Republic ordered an investigation of the facts so as to establish fully whether there was any criminal intent in the firing which was attended with the deplorable result of wounding a boy on American territory during a battle between the Federal and rebel forces in the beginning of February last.
The embassy realizes the-gravity of the facts, but can give assurance that the investigation ordered by the President will be entirely satisfactory, all the more as the Government of Mexico, without prejudging the specific case which has caused the present communications, already declared in Ambassador de la Barra’s note of March 14 that the Mexican forces do not harbor any ill feeling toward the forces of the United States which are so efficaciously striving to maintain neutrality.
Once more I renew [etc.],