812.00Sonora/490: Telegram
The Vice Consul at Agua Prieta (Jones) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 3—4:18 a.m.]
Your urgent April 2, 6 p.m.35 Two bombs dropped in Naco, Arizona, this morning at seven thirty. Both approximately one hundred sixty feet American territory and doing several hundred dollars damage by breaking windows in American business houses. Harry Baker of Alliance, Ohio, and presumably an American citizen, sustained a slight scalp wound, not serious.
General Frank Cocheu commanding American troops in Arizona, New Mexico, district was accompanied by me in a visit to General Fausto Topete today at which time General Cocheu warned General Topete that the United States Government would not countenance the injury of American citizens and damaging of American property by either rebel or Federal forces. General Topete expressed deep regret that bombs had fallen on American soil, stating that it had been entirely accidental and promised that it would not occur again. He instructed his commercial agent here who was our guide to settle all damages at once. Further developments will be reported to the Department promptly.
- See telegram of the same date to the Consul at Nogales, supra.↩