File No. 812.00/13171.
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Following is reply of Villa to Obregón’s telegram, translation of which was transmitted to the Department September 11:
Headquarters in Chihuahua, September 9, 1914.
I have received with satisfaction your message of yesterday,60 in which you are pleased to communicate to me that you have found the majority of the revolutionary leaders who have arrived at the capital entirely willing to support and sustain the ideas and aspirations which we have and which I sincerely believe will save the Mexican people. I accept with enthusiasm your patriotic idea that we should all together approach the President of the Republic to ask how to take up the matter of the departure of the American forces which are in Vera Cruz; for it is really humiliating and shameful for our beloved country that invading forces still remain in Vera Cruz when there exists no justification for it. You are fully authorized to address said note in such terms as you may judge appropriate, having the goodness to sign my name.
Cordially,
The General in Chief,
Francisco Villa.
- Dated, as transmitted, September 9.↩