Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 812.00/915.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

Referring to the confidential memorandum of the embassy of Mexico of the 1st instant, in reference to the supposed miscarriage of certain papers taken from the rebel Martin Casillas at El Paso, Tex., the Department of State has the honor to say that it is informed by the Department of Justice, to which the memorandum was communicated in confidence, that the papers mentioned have not in fact miscarried, but are in the possession of the assistant United States attorney at El Paso, who is preserving them for use as evidence.

Department of State,
Washington, March 17, 1911.