Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.00/21477

[Inclosure—Translation]

The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State

Mexican Embassy,
Washington, November 16, 1917.

Excellency: The Consul of Mexico at Presidio, Texas, reports to me that 27 Mexican soldiers fleeing from a band of malefactors who pursued them crossed into American territory opposite the American town of El India, Texas, where they were arrested by the American authorities and seat an to Presidio Texas.

I shall be obliged to your excellency if you will kindly issue the order to let those twenty-seven soldiers return to my country with the arms and baggage they brought over the border.

Thanking your excellency for the attention you may give to this matter, I avail [etc.]

Y. Bonillas