File No. 812.00/14650.
Special Agent Silliman to the Secretary of State.
[Telegrams.]
Vera Cruz,
March 20, 1915—6 p.m.
Department’s March 12, 5 p.m., as to outrages at Mexico City following recent evacuation. Foreign Office today reply transmitting statement of Chief of Police.
- First. Charge denied as respects Constitutionalists.
- Second. Denied as having occurred up to time Chief left but positively states that there was no such property in or near Mexico City worth even hundred thousand.
- Third. Not reported at police headquarters up to tenth.
- Fourth. Same reply. One Spaniard killed but by a well known band of thieves.
- Fifth. Not mentioned in reply.
- Sixth. Admitted, but killed while driving rapidly at night and refusing to heed sentinel’s third call to halt.
- Seventh. Nothing known at police headquarters.
- Eighth. Same reply in general. All charges denied and Foreign Office considers Department badly misinformed.
Silliman.