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File No. 312.51/63a.

The Secretary of State to Special Agent Canova.

[Telegram]
Department of State,
Washington, July 22, 1914, 3 p.m.

Proceed to Zacatecas and exert every energy to secure full information especially regarding reported death of two French priests and imprisonment of eleven others and generally regarding treatment accorded to representatives of all religious orders. Telegraph results. Forward mail description conditions since the attack on and fall of Zacatecas, covering treatment accorded foreigners and their interests.

Bryan
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