File No. 817.00/2039.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Navy.
Washington, October 1, 1912.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th ultimo inviting attention to the request and suggestion of Rear Admiral Southerland, contained in his telegram to you dated September 26, 9 p.m., that the recent revolutionary leader in Nicaragua, General Luis Mena, who, upon his surrender to Rear Admiral Southerland, was sent to Panama on the U. S. S. Cleveland, be kept under surveillance and that neither he nor his son be allowed to proceed to any Central American state.
In reply I have the honor to inform you that at the request of this Department the War Department has directed the authorities of the [Page 1055] Canal Zone, with whom the American Legation at Panama will fully cooperate, clearly to explain to General Mena and his son that this Government expects them to remain at present upon Canal Zone territory.
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