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.