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The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador ( Téllez )
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to His Excellency the Ambassador of Mexico, and, referring to the Mexican Embassy’s note of November 4, 1927, concerning reports that Yaqui Indians along the Arizona border were engaged in efforts to transfer implements of war from the United States to Mexico, has the honor to inform the Ambassador that the appropriate branch of this Government has submitted a report dated December 5, 1927, with regard to the matter. The pertinent portion of the report reads as follows:
This matter, since the early part of this year, has been under surveillance by Federal Agents. The greater number of the Yaqui Indians coming into the United States from Mexico since last April still reside in the Tucson country. Some few have returned to Mexico. As to the smuggling of ammunition into Mexico, no information has been received that any large quantity has been carried back by Yaquis returning to their native land.
The activities of all the different factions on the Mexican border adjoining Arizona have been watched very closely in consequence of which a number of indictments have been returned in the Tucson and Los Angeles districts. Recently Jose Gandara was convicted at Tucson, Arizona, in the Federal Court, and received a sentence of two years in McNeil Island Penitentiary, and was fined the sum of $1,000.00. Other cases are now pending in the Tucson and Los Angeles districts.