File No. 312.11/6994.
The Confidential Agent of the Constitutionalist Government to the Secretary of State.
My dear Mr. Secretary: In reference to your excellency’s note to Mr. Carranza, through American Representative John R. Silliman and American Consul in Laredo, Texas, I beg to state that I am instructed by my Government to advise your excellency that orders were given to General Obregon to protect American citizens in Los Mochis and that they will have the necessary protection; but at the same time I beg to invite your excellency’s attention to the fact that General Obregon informs that foreign citizens in that region have been giving all kinds of aid to the Villistas and previously were the supporters of General Victoriano Huerta.
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