Office of the Historian

File No. 812.00/2615.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, December 16, 1911.
No. 87.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 14th instant, which has been translated as follows:

Ambassador of Mexico has just received instructions to ask your excellency be pleased to interpose good offices to the end of obtaining that Mr. Jose Barthelow, agent American authorities at Laredo, proceed with all the activity case requires to execute orders; that he has apprehension Mexican insurgents.

In reply, I beg to inform you that I have communicated your request to the Department of Justice for its information and appropriate action.

Accept, etc.,

P. C. Knox.