File No. 812.00/18437
Consul Johnson to the Secretary of State
[Telegrams]
Brownsville,
June 15, 1916.
About sixty bandits crossed the river about forty miles below Laredo at San Ygnacio and attacked a part of our troops, killing three and wounding seven, one of whom since died. Eight Mexicans were killed and don’t know how many wounded. General Ricaut is afraid that if the Americans cross the river there will be serious trouble, for one thousand Mexican soldiers have been sent to the border to suppress the raiders and if the Americans cross river there will be a general engagement.
Johnson