Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 312.52/497.

The Secretary of State to the Spanish Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, January 4, 1915.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: Referring to previous correspondence relative to the execution at Tampico, Mexico, of Vicente Vidal and Eduardo Sabugal, and the detention of Julian Zorrilla, Spanish subjects, I enclose herewith, for your information, a copy of despatch No. 1095, dated December 18, 1914,⁹¹ from the American Consul at Vera Cruz, transmitting correspondence from the Carranza Foreign Office, in which it is stated that future representations in regard to this matter must be made by the legal representatives of Spanish interests in Mexico.

I am [etc.]

W. J. Bryan.

91. For. Rel. 1914, p. 837.