File No. 817.51/1051
[Untitled]
Washington, November 22, 1917.
Most Excellent Sir: Under instruction received by cable from the Honorable Minister of Finance of Nicaragua, I permit myself to beg your excellency to cause one hundred and thirty thousand dollars of the one hundred and fifty-five thousand for the payment of salaries in arrears to be remitted as before and twenty-five thousand to be deposited in a bank here for the same purpose of paying arrears of salary which my Government must have in gold so as to draw thereon as agreed by the two Governments.
I beg your excellency to effect this and payment as desired by the Honorable Minister of Finance and to pardon the trouble it may cause, and to accept [etc.]