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

File No. 812.00/15306.

Special Agent Carothers to the Secretary of State ad interim.

El Paso, June 19, 1915.

Sir: I have the honor to enclose a communication received from Lic. Miguel Diaz Lombardo, in charge of the Office of Foreign Relations for the Conventionist Government, in which he requests me to notify you of the appointment of Lic. Francisco Lagos Cházaro as President of the Convention.

I have [etc.]

G. C. Carothers.

[Inclosure—Translation.]

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Department of Foreign Relations,
Chihuahua, June 15, 1915.

Sir: By direction of General Francisco Villa, Chief of Operations of the Conventionist Army, I have the honor to inform you that, General Roque Gonzalez Garza having resigned the office of President of the Sovereign Revolutionary Convention in charge of the Federal Executive Power and the Assembly having accepted his resignation, Licenciado Francisco Lagos Cházaro was appointed as his successor and has accepted and assumed charge of the said office.

I beg you to inform your Government of the foregoing, and I am [etc.]

For the Officer in charge:

Ant’o Pérez Rivera.