File No. 312.51/73.

The Secretary of State to Special Agent Canova.

[Telegram.]

Department desires you proceed Zacatecas in accordance with its July 22, 3 p.m. You will avail yourself of every opportunity to [Page 877] secure information as to opinion of Constitutionalist leaders regarding the effect the decree of July 14th of General Villareal against the church has produced.

W. J. Bryan
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