File No. 22113/15.
The Honduranean Minister to the Secretary of State.
Washington, November 11, 1909.
My Dear Mr. Secretary: It affords me genuine pleasure to have the honor to inform your excellency that upon my forwarding to my Government the contents of your memorandum of the 9th instant in which you declared that in asking that the Government of Honduras turn the vessel Perlas over to the American consul the department had no other object than to avoid loss to its owners, who are American citizens, and in no way intended to look into the motives which may have led the Government of Honduras to hold as a prisoner the passenger who was on the said vessel, the minister of foreign relations replied under date of yesterday as follows:
In compliance with department’s wishes the release of the small steamer has been ordered. Make it known.
Ochoa.
I gladly avail myself, etc.,