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Mr. Gresham to Mr. Baker.

[Telegram.]
Department of Stats,
Washington , June 12, 1894 .

The Department has your telegram of 10th repeating a dispatch addressed to you by Estanislao Perez describing himself as minister of war of Salvador and asking that you order the delivery of Gen. Ezeta, received on board a war ship of the United States at La Libertad, to the authorities of Salvador to be tried and punished for crime. The President is not advised that the revolutionists in Salvador have established a new Government entitled to recognition and competent to demand surrender of the Salvadoreans received on board the Bennington.