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

File No. 812.00/14224.

Vice Consul Silliman to the Secretary of State .

[Telegrams—Extracts.]

Mexico City , January 17, 1915 .

Last night the Convention formally deposed the Provisional President and itself assumed the Government. The President of the Convention was named the Executive of the Convention.

Silliman.