Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 22113/3–4.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Brown.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 1, 1909.

Mr. Wilson informs Minister Brown that the Perlas Banana Co. report that their tugboat was impressed by the revolutionists of Bluefields to carry a passenger to Puerto Barrios; that the tug had to put into Puerto Cortes and was held by the Honduranean authorities there. Instructs him to investigate and take steps to restore vessel to its owners.