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. 417.00/43.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Managua , July 1, 1911 .

Does the wording “by the present Nicaraguan Government,” in article 6, apply to the Government of President Estrada? The Nicaraguan Government fears this paragraph would require reinstatement of the concession of the Bluefields Steamship Co., with its exclusive right of navigating Escondido River, of the lottery concession, and of other concessions referred to in the ministers dispatch 52, of May 25.

Gunther.