Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 98.
Mr. Hall to Mr. Bayard.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States in Central America,
Guatemala, July 20, 1887. (Received August 9.)

No. 690.]

Sir: On the 14th instant the Guatemalan Government received from its minister in Mexico the telegram referred to in my dispatch No. 685 of the same date. In addition to the announcement that troops were in march to the frontier, it contains a charge against the Guatemalan Government that its agents had assaulted the Mexican secretary of legation.

On a previous occasion Mr. Hosmer had called on Señor Garay to ascertain what foundation there might be for the report from Mexico, that troops were marching to the Guatemalan frontier. Señor Garay assured Mr. Hosmer that the report was untrue, or rather that it was impossible. At the second interview, however, Señor Garay confirmed the report.

I have, etc.,

Henry C. Hall.