Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 812.00/1951.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

In further reply to the memorandum of the Embassy of Mexico of the 9th ultimo in regard to a report of the consul of Mexico at El Paso, Tex., that on May 8, 1911, several shots were fired from the American side of the Rio Grande at the Mexican side, the Department of State has the honor to inclose for the embassy’s information copies of two letters from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting reports from the commanding officer, district of El Paso, in reference to the matter.

Department of State,
Washington, June 12, 1911.

[Inclosures.]

[There are nine reports transmitted by the commanding, officer, air concurring in the statement that no shots were fired as reported.]