File No. 812.00/1506.
The Governor of Arizona to the President.
Phoenix, Ariz., April 21, 1911.
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a brief statement of the events which led to my sending the telegram of April 17, the answer to which I received on the morning of the 18th.
[Narrative of military activities during the battle at Agua Prieta.]
I desire to express my appreciation of the prompt response you gave my telegram. I feel certain that the candid and full statement of the situation from the standpoint of the Government made by you has had a salutary effect among the insurrectionists, as it has had in clearing the international situation. In the anxiety that I and the citizens of Douglas felt at the moment, and our great desire to protect our own people, we may have appeared to overlook the larger questions involved, which were so fully and satisfactorily stated by you in your telegram * * *.
Very respectfully,