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

File No. 312.52/607.

The Secretary of State to Special Agent Silliman .

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington , May 29, 1915 .

Department informed Mazatlan authorities have decreed expropriation Water Supply Company, Mazatlan. At request Spanish Embassy, please confer with Spanish Confidential Agent and exercise best efforts have this property protected against unwarranted molestation.

Bryan.