File No. 812.00/2903.

The Mexican Ambassador to the Acting Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Translation.]

I have received telegraphic instructions from my Government to beg of you, as I now have the honor to do, to be pleased to let me know what credit may be given to the press report recently published that American troops are leaving for El Paso with orders to cross into Mexican territory if shots are fired at the American side from Ciudad Juárez or any other place.

Gilberto Crespo y Martinez