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

File No. 812.00/11483.

The Secretary of State to Chargé O’Shaughnessy.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 10, 1914, 9 p.m.

740. You have received from Mayo, Vera Cruz, copy of message sent to local Mexican general. The President directs that you present the matter at once to the Foreign Office with utmost firmness, earnestness, and frankness, representing to them the extreme seriousness of the situation and the possibility that the gravest consequences may ensue unless the guilty parties are promptly punished. Inform us of reply made and action taken.

Bryan

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