File No. 812.00/16001.
The Confidential Agent of the Constitutionalist Government to the Secretary of State.
My dear Mr. Lansing: I have the honor to bring to your excellency’s attention the following telegram I have just received from [Page 807] Mr. Acuña, Acting Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Constitutionalist Government of Mexico:
Veracruz, August 28, 1915.
To the end that you may make such representations before the American Government as may be proper, I transmit hereby, the text of a telegram, dated yesterday, addressed to me by General Jacinto B. Treviiio, reading as follows: “I am informed by General Nafarrate, at Matamoros, that American soldiers stationed on the other side of the river opened fire against our soldiers who are on this side of the Rio Grande, wounding two of them. I bring this to your attention in order that you may take such action as may be proper, with the understanding that I have directed that any firing from the other side should not be replied to by our soldiers, unless otherwise expressly instructed by this general headquarters.
Acuña.
I trust that your excellency will have the kindness to recommend such action as will result in the discontinuance of acts of this kind, which might lead into complications, especially at this time when there seem to be some disturbance on the American side of the border.
With assurance [etc.]