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

File No. 812.00/13795.

Vice Consul Silliman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Consulate,
Mexico City, November 16, 1914, 10 a.m.

Resulting from conference of General González with the First Chief, the latter has made another proposition. He offers to resign his military command to General González; proposes that Villa resign his to Gutiérrez, and that both himself and Villa retire to Havana by the 25th; the Convention to reassemble in Mexico City and elect a Provisional President for the entire pre-constitutional period; and that Gutiérrez and González shall then deliver to the new President their respective forces.

Silliman

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