Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 817.812/178

Minister Long to the Secretary of State

[Telegram—Extract]

American Legation,
San Salvador, March 26, 1916, 4 p.m.

Yesterday Julio Acosta, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, who is on special mission here, advised me he had just received from San Jose a telegram announcing that his Government on Friday last arraigned Nicaragua before the court at Cartago in connection with Nicaraguan treaty. Details of indictment or when trial will be held not now obtainable here.

Long