Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 818.00/275

Minister Price to the Secretary of State

[Telegrams—Extract]

American Legation,
Panama, December 20, 1917, noon.

Secretary of Government and Justice informs me Alfredo and José Volio, Colonel Ricardo Monge, José Arias, Abel Robles and four others under the leadership of M. Castro Quesada arrived all well armed and without passports at Cote on Golfo Dulce and were taken under arrest to David where they were released by his orders. He says that they wish to go to Nicaragua and that if they have any intention of overthrowing Tinoco he feels sure that they will do nothing from Panaman territory.

Price