File No. 312.11/7060.
Admiral Winslow to the Secretary of the Navy.
Topolobampo, December 11, 1915.
M-3197, Raleigh, from Guaymas, reports:
Fighting in vicinity of Corral yesterday and this morning between soldiers and Yaquis. * * * No reply to telegrams to General Dieguez have been received. Dieguez now at Nogales. Railroad officials have wired their officials at Nogales to impress on Dieguez necessity for a larger garrison at Corral.
Attention of Department is invited to the fact that this force left Corral without warning, just as the force left Mochis; and if Carranza forces are for any reason suddenly withdrawn from Yaqui Valley, a raid may be expected on Americans in that district, and the marines I asked for could not reach me in time to take part in the early operations, and the present expeditionary force is none too strong. It is considered possible that under certain conditions Mexican authorities might grant permission for us, or even request us, to land and protect our own people.