Office of the Historian

File No. 711.1216M/288.

The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]
Mexican Embassy,
Washington, May 24, 1911.
No. 1435.]

Excellency: The department of foreign relations writes me that in case the defensive works of the Colorado River in Lower California are completed, it would like to transfer the forces now charged with the special protection of those works to other places and assign them to other duties in the public service.

I hope that your excellency will be pleased to send me a reply as soon as possible so as to transmit it by telegraph to my Government.

I have [etc.],

M. de Zamacona.