Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 9160/50–51.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Sands.

Department of State,
Washington , December 10, 1907 .

No. 65.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 36 of the 20th ultimo in further relation to the assault on Simon Shine and George Milliken by the civil and military governor at Zacapa, Guatemala.

On the 6th instant the department sent you the following telegram, which I now confirm.¹

In this connection I inclose herewith copies of memorandums from and to the Guatemalan minister at this capital on the subject.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.

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