File No. 22112/15.
The Secretary of State to the Honduranean Minister.
Washington, November 12, 1909.
My Dear Mr. Minister: I have received with gratification your personal note of the 11th instant, in which you quote a telegram to you from your Government informing you that in compliance with the department’s wishes it had ordered the release of the tugboat Perlas.
In view of the fact that the Government of Honduras has so scrupulously observed the convention in the case of one of the Nicaraguan revolutionists found within its territory, the Government of the United States can not but join with the Governments signatory to the Washington conventions, which support those conventions, in looking to the Government of Honduras to be equally [Page 379] scrupulous in preserving an absolute neutrality with respect to both the parties now contending for supremacy in Nicaragua.
I am, etc.,