812.00Sonora/790: Telegram
The Consul at Nogales (Damm) to the Secretary of State
Nogales, Ariz., April 24, 1929—7
a.m.
[Received 10:40 a.m.]
[Received 10:40 a.m.]
From Guaymas.
“For Department. April 23, midnight. Commander and Consul have conferred with officers of the Federal gunboat Bravo and have obtained promise not to bombard Guaymas. Bravo has just received orders from Calles to bombard Empalme at 9 p.m. tomorrow evening. We have protested bombardment Empalme as unnecessary from military viewpoint and ruinous to railway interests there.”
Damm