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. 812.00/1923.

[Memorandum.]

Referring to the memorandum addressed by the Department of State to the Embassy of Mexico on the 13th ultimo, the Department of State has the honor to transmit herewith for the embassy’s information a copy of a letter from the Attorney General, inclosing reports from the United States attorney at Waco, Tex., and the deputy United States marshal at El Paso, Tex., in relation to a report that on the 8th of that month shots were fired at the Mexican side from the American side of the international boundary, near Juarez.

Department of State,
Washington, June 8, 1911.

[Inclosures.]

[The letter from the Attorney General and that from the United States attorney at Waco are merely letters of transmission; the report transmitted is from Deputy Marshal H. R. Hillebrand, addressed to Marshal Nolte at San Antonio, and dated El Paso, May 12, 1911; it narrates the writer’s personal investigation on the 8th and 9th of May, from which he found that no shots had been fired from the American side of the river and that there were ho facts on which to base or warrant the report contained in the embassy’s memorandum.]