File No. 412.11/50.
The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, January 17, 1912.
Yesterday I presented, very earnestly and insistently, the Alamo and frontier cases. The President inclined to place some of the responsibility on President de la Barra. He promised immediately to instruct Mexican consuls at El Paso and Douglas to ascertain the number and identity of persons injured or killed, with descriptions, circumstances, etc., and immediately to constitute a judicial inquiry of strictly impartial character into the Alamo cases; that immediately following the consuls’ reports and the judicial inquiry the matter of settlement will be taken up and disposed of without delay.
I shall notify the Department when these steps are taken, in order that it may make sure that an exact and truthful account may in all the cases be brought to the knowledge of the investigating agents.