File No. 812.00/931.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.
Washington, March 24, 1911.
Sir: The Department has received the embassy’s No. 372 of the 8th instant, in which, with reference to the Department’s telegram [Page 434] of February 7 last, directing the embassy to call the attention of the Mexican Government to the fact that Mexican federal troops had fired upon Dr. Bush, of Elo, Tex., while he was attending the wounded in the revolutionary camp under the flag of the Red Cross and with permission from the Mexican military authorities, there is inclosed a translation of a note on the subject from the foreign office.
Copies of this correspondence have been forwarded to Representative W. R. Smith of Texas, and to the secretary of the American National Red Cross, for its information and comment.
I am [etc.],