Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 722.2315/598.

The American Minister to Peru to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Legation,
Lima, August 8, 1913.

The President has proposed to Ecuador if serious inroads upon her terms of settlement are feared through arbitration, that a tentative boundary line for each country be agreed upon, beyond which the award shall not be effective. The Ecuadorian Minister will personally present the proposition to his Government.

Howard.