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

File No. 812.00/14660.

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Department of State,
Washington, March 26, 1915—4 p.m.

584. Your 380, March 2, midnight. Silliman reports Carranza in reply admits no responsibility. Obregon upheld. Liability for distress Mexico City denied. Criticizes conduct French and German consuls and yourself. Strikers and laborers eulogized. Clergy criticised without allusion to restitution. Railway communication with Mexico City subject military operations through traffic inadmissible while capital in enemy’s hands.

W. J. Bryan.