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

File No. 312.115C96/103

The Secretary of State to Special Agent Silliman

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, February 16, 1916, 5 p.m.

Department informed garrison at Cusihuiriachic has been reduced to fifty men, and that superior force of Villistas is within twenty miles.

Request appropriate authorities to station not less than three hundred additional infantrymen at Cusihuiriachic, for protection important mining property there.

Lansing