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

File No. 815.04412/2

Chargé Spencer to the Secretary of State

[Extract]

No. 318

American Legation,
Tegucigalpa, July 14, 1916.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the Department’s instruction No. 103 of June 17 last, in which [etc.]

I have telegraphed the Consuls at La Ceiba and Puerto Cortés and written the Consul in this city to let me know immediately of any attempt on the part of Honduran officials to enforce any of the provisions of this law against an American citizen, and I shall not fail to report promptly to the Department for explicit instructions the full circumstances of any case which may arise.

I have [etc.]

Willing Spencer