File No. 312.11/8366
Collector of Customs Cobb to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
El Paso,
January 31, 1917—1 p.m.
Informed by Bishop Hearst about two hundred Mormons remaining Colonia Juarez. Have told him information I consider reliable of Villa’s anger upon finding American buildings and stock of provisions destroyed and threat against Americans including Mormon colonists and advised him to urge colonists withdraw.
Cobb