Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 834.00/104.

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

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Montevideo, July 8, 1911.

President Jara was arrested July 5, but newspapers assert that he arranged for this himself as the only way safely to leave the country. A provisional government will be formed.

Turner.