File No. 815.032/14

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[Note.—The message was read to the Congress on January 1, 1916, and transmitted to the Secretary of State by the American Minister on January 4, 1916. The following are the only passages referring to the United States.]

[Translation]

By mutual agreement between this Government and the Government ment of the United States of America, a protocol has been signed modifying the peace treaty concluded November 13, 1913.

The Government of Honduras took part in the deliberations held by the American Governments at Washington for the purpose of establishing common rules of neutrality in the great European conflict and in order to prevent, as far as possible, disturbances in and danger to the neutral commerce of America.

It also participated, by invitation of the American Government, in the financial conference held at the city of Washington with a view to promoting the economic development of all the nations of the continent; and it is represented at present in the Second Pan American Scientific Congress. This congress was attended, as the delegates of the Government, by Drs. Carlos Alberto Uclés and Fausto Dávila, and by special invitation of the Carnegie Institute for Universal Peace, by Drs. Rómulo E. Durón, Ricardo de J. Urrutia and Luis Landa.

Other invitations of the American Government were received during the course of the last fiscal year, among them being a special invitation to our Minister of Foreign Affairs to attend the official ceremonies accompanying the formal opening of the Panama Canal, which meeting did not take place owing to the complications connected with the European war.

This friendly invitation of the American Government and the deference with which our Government has looked upon the movements of international interest in which the American Government has taken the initiative have rendered closer our relations with the great republic of the north.

I wish to state, as an act of just recognition, that the friendly and diligent action of his excellency Mr. John Ewing, Envoy Extraordinary [Page 392] and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at this capital, effectively contributes toward this cordiality and good understanding which now exists with the American Government.

Alberto Membreño