File No. 812.0144/77
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador ( Bonillas)
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note No. A–1620, of April 11, 1918, in which you refer to your note of February 11, 1918.
You state that the representations made in the latter note were intended to call this Government’s attention to the crossing of American troops into Mexico and to the gravity of such acts, in order that this Government might take appropriate measures to prevent a recurrence of such incidents and thus demonstrate its purpose to maintain the friendly relations happily existing between the United States and Mexico.
You say that your Government regrets that the note in question was not received in this sense by the American Government, but that your Government feels assured that the Government of the United States, convinced of the spirit of justice prompting the representations of the Government of the United Mexican States, will not fail to give due consideration to such matters as may be brought to its attention by your excellency’s Government.
In reply I have the honor to inform your excellency that I have taken due note of the contents of your communication under acknowledgment, and that I shall be pleased to give prompt and careful attention to such matters as your Government may find it necessary to address to this Government through your excellency’s Embassy.
I take pleasure in adding that I have requested the proper branch of this Government to cause an investigation to be made of the incident referred to in the opening paragraph of your note of the 11th instant.
Accept [etc.]