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

File No. 812.00/20144

Consul Garrett to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Laredo, December 26, 1916, noon.

Eighty armed rebels crossed the Rio Grande below Laredo and forty above Laredo from the Texas side and burned a small railroad bridge twelve miles south of Nuevo Laredo. It is supposed that their object is to cut railroad lines south of Nuevo Laredo preparatory to capturing that city.

Garrett