812.00/24105: Telegram
The Chargé in Mexico (Summerlin) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11 p.m.]
260. In a note dated May 24th addressed to the dean of the diplomatic corps here with the request that he communicate it to the other chiefs of missions, Senator Sánchez Azcona in charge of the Mexican Foreign Office states that the Mexican military authorities have fully confirmed that President Carranza was killed by armed forces [that] accompanied him, thereby defeating the desperate efforts made by these authorities to protect his life and that the executive power having ceased to exist because the President abandoned Mexico City without the indispensable permission of Congress, as well as because of his subsequent death, Congress will meet in extra session to select a provisional president who will supervise the general elections already called and relinquish the office to his successor on the date fixed by law. This note was made public in the local press to-day.