File No. 812.00/2096.
[Translation.]
Washington, May 25, 1911.
Excellency: The war department of Mexico desires that permission be granted for the transit of the following officers and men of the national army who are now at El Paso, Tex., and are to proceed to Laredo, Tamaulipas, to join their respective corps: 1 general, 1 colonel, 3 lieutenant colonels, 1 major, 12 captains, 14 first lieutenants, 11 second lieutenants, 4 officers of the medical corps, 387 privates, 7 privates of the hospital corps.
In transmitting the wishes of the war department by order of my Government and begging your excellency to be pleased to use your good offices toward obtaining permission for the transit of the said officers and men from El Paso, Tex., to Laredo, Tex., I have the honor to renew, etc.,