Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 312.11/4057b.

The Secretary of State to Consul Letcher.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 1, 1914.

Just informed A. B. Emery, American citizen, will be shot at Zacatecas to-day unless $200,000 ransom is paid. Please make immediate representations to General Carranza in his behalf. Insist on his release.

Bryan

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