General Manuel Echeverría, San Albino,

Colonel Irías met the enemy at Murra and one of the boys came with a small scratch and said that the Colonel went to place another ambush further ahead because the Machos came out happy, I believe that on finding out that the boys were on the hills, they must have tried to take the hills, and the boys must have gotten scared and disoccupied the heights. It must have been Quintero, and I believe he can do something unless the Yankees have gone to Ciudad Sandino.

There are eighteen Constabularies and the Colonel has twenty, but I believe that the position which they tried to take was occupied by only five. Estrada is here and I sent him fifty men with two machine-guns because the other gunner already arrived. I want you to be the chief of this patrol for your greater success, and I will send Don Coronado who is there organizing, and if I can't send him I will send another one, but it must be right away.

Friend and Companion

/s/ A. C. Sandino