Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 738.3915/73.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Santo Domingo, June 20, 1911.

The minister for foreign affairs has requested me to inform you that a communication goes forward by to-day’s mail instructing the Dominican plenipotentiaries to endeavor by every possible effort to effect a satisfactory settlement of the boundary dispute and not to break off negotiations before consulting with the Secretary of State of the United States.

Russell.