File No. 312.62/64.

The Secretary of State to Consul Hamm.

[Telegram.]

State to General Carranza that at request of German Embassy, this city, Department has instructed you to ask him to order release to owner, of hardware store in San Pedro de Las Colonias, Coahuila, and ranch twelve or fifteen miles east of city, both belonging to Mrs. Helena Pfeiffer, a German subject, and seized by Constitutionalists, including quantity of wheat and cotton on ranch. Store said to be in charge of Colonel C. Benavides.

Bryan
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