Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 312.115C96/60

Special Agent Silliman to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Querétaro, January 19, 1916.

The text has been furnished me of decree declaring that on account of connection with the Santa Ysabel massacre² Francisco Villa, Rafael Castro and Pablo Lopez are outside the law, and that any citizen may apprehend and execute them, the only formality being their identification.

Silliman

2. See Protection of Americans and American interests, p. 653.