File No. 312.11/7052.
The Confidential Agent of the Constitutionalist Government to the Secretary of State.
My dear Mr. Secretary: I refer to our recent conversation on the matter of Los Mochis and I am pleased to inform your excellency that in a telegram dated at Monterey December 1, Mr. Carranza advises me that the recent successes of our troops on the revolutionists have brought as a result that Los Mochis be occupied by our forces.
Mr. Carranza further states that our Government will afford every guaranty and protection on lives and property at that place to both [Page 856] nationals and foreigners in the same way as it has been done heretofore in every place controlled by our Government.
I renew [etc.]