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

File No. 312.11/7250

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Department of State,
Washington, January 22, 1916, 4 p.m..

Reports from Los Mochis state that garrisons there and in Fuerte Valley are inadequate to guard against possible incursion of Villistas from Chihuahua. Request Foreign Office to have adequate protection given settlers Los Mochis district, who have already suffered many hardships from raids by Indians and Villistas.

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