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

File No. 812.00/18703

The Acting Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

[Extract]

Department of State,
Washington, July 17, 1916.

Sir: Referring to the subject of the arrest of two officers of the U. S. S. Annapolis and the firing on seamen from that vessel by Mexican soldiers at Mazatlan, I enclose herewith, for you information, a copy of a report on the subject by Mr. A. Gordon Brown, the American Vice Consul in Charge at Mazatlan.²³

You will make discreet use of the information contained in Mr. Brown’s report.

I am [etc.]

For the Acting Secretary of State:

Alvey A. Adee

23. Printed ante, p. 578.