File No. 812.0144/90
The Mexican Ambassador ( Bonillas) to the Secretary of State
Excellency: I have had the honor to receive your excellency’s kind note dated April 17,1 in which you are pleased to inform me that the attention of the proper Department of your Government has been called to the firing on Mexican soldiers who were at Guadalupe, State of Chihuahua, by American soldiers during which a soldier, four women, and a boy were killed and Maj. Porfirio García was wounded, to the end that instructions to avoid a conflict be sent at the earliest possible date.
To complement the investigations of the case and to prove that the American forces started the firing without any cause, I enclose to your excellency a copy of the reports made by the citizen Consul General at El Paso,1 who personally investigated the case and applied to Col. C. T. Langhorne, commander of the military district of Big Bend, whom he asked to punish the guilty.
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