Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 812.00/14592.

Consul Garrett to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Consulate,
Nuevo Laredo, March 14, 1915.

General Ricaut informed me this morning that he will probably be forced to evacuate this city before many days and asked me to request permission from the Department to cross his wounded and take them by railroad through American territory to Matamoros.

Garrett.