Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894

Mr. Guzman to Mr. Gresham.

Legation of the Republic of Nicaragua,
Washington, March 5, 1894.

Sir: Appended to the present communication I have the honor to send to Your Excellency copy of a telegram addressed to me by the vice-consul of Nicaragua at New York.

The report contained in this dispatch has been already published in the American daily papers, as Your Excellency may have seen.

With all consideration, I am, etc.,

H. Guzman.

[Inclosure.]

Mr. Straus to Mr. Guzman.

[Telegram.]

New York, March 2, 1894.

British war ship Cleopatra landed armed force Bluefields, compelling Nicaraguans to raise state of siege. Cleopatra returned Jamaica. British soldiers remained.