Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 125.8273/38a.

The Secretary of State to Consul General Hanna.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 4, 1914.

Press despatches from Vera Cruz report Silliman a prisoner of General Maas for eleven days and threatened with execution. Make every effort to communicate with him; learn facts.

Bryan

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