File No. 812.00/1374.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

No. 6.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Pereyra’s note of the 15th instant, stating that your excellency had telegraphed to the department of foreign affairs of Mexico the contents of the Department’s note of the 10th of the same month in regard to the wounding of a boy on American territory during a battle between Mexican Federal and insurgent forces in February [Page 468] last and that the President of Mexico had ordered an investigation of the matter.

Requesting that your excellency will be so good as to advise me promptly of the result of this investigation, which the Department will await,

I beg, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.