Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 312.115C96/81

The Secretary of State to Special Agent Silliman

[Telegrams]

Department of State,
Washington, January 31, 1916, 3 p.m.

Department receiving complaints that little or nothing is being done to apprehend guilty parties connected with Santa Ysabel massacre. Reported none of guilty has yet been captured.

Make discreet inquiry with a view to ascertaining just what is being done to capture and punish murderers.

Lansing