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

File No. 812.00/18424

The Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, June 15, 1916, 7 p.m.

141. Mexicans crossed Rio Grande thirty miles below Laredo at two o’clock this morning, attacked American guard, killed three, and wounded two. Feeling very tense among Texans.

Immediately inform appropriate authorities.

Lansing