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

File No. 312.52/394.

The Secretary of State to Vice Consul Silliman.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 5, 1914.

Spanish Embassy reports Constitutionalists at San Luis Potosi are exacting loans from Spanish residents there and are confiscating their cattle.

Request Carranza to telegraph orders to local authorities at San Luis Potosi to discontinue enforcing unjust loans and to return confiscated property to rightful owners.

Bryan

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