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

File No. 812.00/17528a

The Acting Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, March 18, 1916, 6 p.m.

Request General Carranza to issue necessary orders to appropriate Chihuahua authorities to permit this Government to transport supplies for American troops now in pursuit of Villa and his band over the Northwestern Railway from Juarez to Casas Grandes or its vicinity. In making the request you will remind General Carranza of this Government’s courtesy to him in repeatedly allowing his forces to use the railroads of this country. Telegraph reply as quickly as possible.

Polk