File No. 812.00/18525
Special Representative Rodgers to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Mexico City,
June 21, 1916, 9 p.m.
165. Bulletin from Mexican War Office tonight announces engagement in State Chihuahua between American and Mexican forces. Announced General Feliz Gomez killed, seventeen American prisoners taken, and that Americans retired.
This bulletin generally interpreted as announcement beginning hostilities.
Rodgers