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

File No. 812.00/18315

The Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, June 5, 1916, 4 p.m.

117. Department informed de la Rosa, well-known leader of border raids, recruiting in Monterey; that recruits are being concentrated near San Ignacio, sixty miles below Laredo; and that they openly assert they are going to rob and burn border towns in Texas, and massacre Americans.

Bring to attention appropriate authorities, and request them to take steps to curb de la Rosa and the recruits mentioned.

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