The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Thompson.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

(Mr. Bacon informs Mr. Thompson that the President is gratified at the cordial assurance of the cooperation of the President of Mexico toward the maintenance of peace in Central America, and for his own part is desirous to back the President of Mexico in what he may do to that end. He says that, accepting his suggestion in his telegram of the 12th, President Roosevelt telegraphed on the 13th to the President of Salvador, and mutatis mutandis to the President of Guatemala, as follows):a

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