File No. 812.00/18044
General Scott to the Secretary of War
[Telegram]
El Paso,
May 1, 1916.
Reference to statement in telegram last night that inside information would be forwarded at 11 o’clock to-day a member of Mexican official family at Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, stated to a most reliable person that Mexican General has been instructed to be fully prepared to crush or annihilate the American forces in Mexico in case of nonwithdrawal.
Scott