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Show DR. RYAN RELEASED BY HUERTA'S ORDER MEXICO CITY. May 1. Dr. Edward Ryan of the American Reef Cross, who was captured at Zacatecas by the command com-mand of General Joaquin Maas and sen-' tenced to death as a spy. was saved by an order signed by Minister of War Blan-uStJ,t,11 Blan-uStJ,t,11 o'clock last night. Dr. Ryan will be brought to this city and turned over to the Brazilian legation. i VERA CRUZ, May 1. President Huerta today ordered the immediate release" of Dr. Edward Ryan, an American Red Cross official, who was threatened with exequtlon as a spy In Zacatecas. The release was ordered after urgent personal representations to President Huerta by William W. Canada. American consul here, Huerta telegraphed to Mr. Canada that he did not know that Dr. Ryan was to be put to death, but that he had ordered or-dered the federal commander at Zacatecas Zaca-tecas to release him at once and give him transportation to Mexico City. From the capital President Huerta promised to send him to Vera. Cruz. Representations In behalf of Dr. Ryan also were made by Sir Christopher Cra-dock. Cra-dock. commander of the British naval squadron In Mexican waters, through Sir X-lonel Cardon, British minister, and by the Brazilian minister, acting for tho United States. - |