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Show MEXICANS MUST. ' FREE SILLlii SECRETARY BRYAN INSISTS THAT VICE-CONSUL MUST BE RELEASED RE-LEASED AT ONCE. Would Not Say What Would Happen If American Representative Was Kept Prisoner, But Emphatically Demands His Release. Washington. While peace negotiations negotia-tions marked time pending formal sittings sit-tings of the South American mediators media-tors to begin May 18 on Canadian soil, the mediators and officials of the state department on Monday were occupied oc-cupied with several serious phases of the Mexican situation demanding immediate attention. Secretary Bryan called at the Argentina Ar-gentina legation and spent two hours in conference with the South American Ameri-can envoys, discussing the continued detention of John R. silliman, American Amer-ican vice consul at Saltillo, by Mexican Mexi-can federals, the reported seizure ot Lobos island, with its lighthouse, by American torpedo boats, and the case of the five South 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 question later he would not say what would happen if the vice-consul were kept in prison, but he was gravely emphatic in announcing the government's determination de-termination to have him freed. |