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. 422.11 G93/461.]

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[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Quito , May 5, 1912 .

General Plaza stated this morning that the mortgages would not be paid unless the railway compromised the revolutionary bills, average last six months last year plus fifty per cent, plus 65,000 sucres damages; questions relating to interest, and approval of bills previously passed by Minister of Interior, to be referred to arbitration.

Bingham.