The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-05-21
BRYAN IS INDIGNANT
nEMANs IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF
VICE CONSUL SILLiMAN
FROM PRISON.
PEACE PLANS CONTINUE
Funston Arrests Three South AmeFi'
cans for Shooting at United
States Marines.

tions marked time pending FORMAL slI-
tines of the South American media
tors to begin Monday on Canadian SOIL
the mediators and officials OF the state
department were occupied With sever
al serious phases of the Mexican STU
alton demanding immediate attention.
Secretary Bryan called at the Ar
gentine legation and spent two hours |
in conference with the South Amer
can ENJOYS, discussing the continued
detention of John r. Siliman, Amerl'
can vice consul at Saltillo, by Mex
lean federals, the Lobos island incl
dent and the case of the i've Soutn
Americans under arrest at vera Cruz
for firing upon United States sailors
and marines.
Mr., Bryan insisted that the release
of Silliman must be brought about at
once. When asked about the matter
later, he would not say what would
happen if the vice consul were kept IN
prison, but he was gravely emphatic In
announcing the governments determl-
nation to have him freed.
First official news of the landing
of American sailors on Lobos Island
reached the navy department IN Ca
blegram from Rear Admiral Mayo,
stating that the Mexican keepers de-
serted the great lighthouse on the
island, and that the destroyed tender
Dixie was maintaining it for the ben
eft of navigation
While the official representatives OF
Huerta were taking leave or their
revolution-torn country at Vera Cruz
while an American general with armed
forces of the United States waited at
one of the gateways to Mexico CITY,
the United States government 9TH
cially announced its representatives
in mediation negotiations before the
, South American triumvirate at Mag
ara Falls, Ont.
U. S. Consul in Prison.
State department officials were In
dignant when it became known that
Vice Consul Siliman and his clerk
Joseph A. Marchani, as well as sew
eral other Americans, had been prls'
cners of the federal commander at
Satillo. and that the consul still is hello
despite urgent representations for his
release made by the Brazilian minis
ter in Mexico City. Late dispatches
were acceptd as indicating that the
Mexican war minister's assurances &c
the French charge last week tha'
neither Consul Siliman no member Of
the embassy staff and no Americans
in Saltillo chad been in danger" wa:
intended only to deceive the state de
partment officials as to the real state
of affairs at Saltillo.
Late in the day Consul Canada re
norted the arrival of Consular Clerl
Marchani in Vera Cruz. The clerk IN
formed Mr. Canada that before ne wa
released from custody of the Mexican
he was marched under guard from tn
iail to the consulate and compelled a
the point of a revolver to open tn
safe and surrender to the federal CON
mander all the consular records an
all yaluables, including money and
quantity of jewelry left there for sal
keeping. It is not known here ho'
manv Americans we're imprisoned, bu
word was received that all had bee
released except Consul Silliman, an
that these Saltillo refugees are pal
of a band of a hundred who left Mexlc
CITY for Vera Cruz. There is nothln
officials here can do to expedite tn
release of Consul Silliman. They mer
" can await the good Offices OF tn
Brazilian minister, who gives assn
ances that he is doing everything pc
sibfe to obtain his liberation.
Arrests South Americans.
With relation to the arrest at Vel
Cruz of the South American citizen
General Funston has proposed to tt
them before military commission.
penalty for conviction would be deaf
Latin American diplomatic represent
tives in Mexico City were thrown in
a panic, and induced the Brazilif
minister to intervene, reasoning tn
because that minister had assumed
sponsibility for the lives and proper
of Americans in Mexico, these repl
sensations might have greater weigh