File No. 816.00.

The American Minister to Salvador to the Secretary of State.

No. 213.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy and translation of three memoranda1 handed to me by the Chargé d’Affaires of Honduras at this capital, dated the 25th, 26th, and 27th instant, relative to the disappearance from San Salvador, on the 22d instant, of Gen. Dionisio Gutiérrez, head of the Honduran political emigrados in this country, who, accompanied by Gens. Jesús Jeremías Zúniga and José María Valladares, had proceeded to Sensuntepeque, a frontier town in Salvador, with the object of invading Honduras.

My telegram to the Department of the 25th instant, 8 a. m.,1 reporting [Page 1328] the disappearance from this city of the before-mentioned revolutionary leaders, was based on the Chargé’s memorandum of the 25th instant, and my telegram of the 26th instant, 2 p.m., advising the Department of the recapture of Gens. Gutierrez and Zúñiga, was based on the Chargé’s memorandum of that date, and also upon a telephone conversation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who had called me up for the purpose of acquainting me with the capture of these men.

The third memorandum of the Honduran Chargé d’Affaires states that Gens. Gutiérrez and Zúñiga, duly guarded, had left San Vicente for this city at 5 o’clock this morning; that Gen. Valladares, whose disappearance constitutes a serious danger to the peace of Honduras, has not yet been captured; that in order to put down completely this chimerical attempt at revolution it devolves upon President Araujo to cause Gen. Valladares to be captured, and that the Chargé has been informed by President Manuel Bonilla, from Tegucigalpa, that Honduras has not been invaded by the emigrados on this occasion, and that the most absolute calm reigns in that country.

I have [etc.],

William Heimke.
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