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

File No. 812.00/13858.

The Brazilian Minister to Mexico to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

Brazilian Legation,
Mexico City, November 22, 1914, 11 a.m.

218. General Blanco today assumed full command of the situation in the Federal District, appointing provisionally governor, police inspector and minor officials. I was reliably informed that this took place after serious disagreement between him and Obregón who as his senior officer commanded him to abandon the city, which he strongly refused to do.

Cardoso de Oliveira

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