File No. 714.1515/28
Minister Ewing to the Secretary of State
[Telegram—Extract]
American Legation,
Tegucigalpa , November 16, 1917, 11 a.m.
Tegucigalpa , November 16, 1917, 11 a.m.
Department’s November 12, 5 p.m. Government replies accepting offer United States to mediate boundary dispute with Guatemala. This request for mediation originally suggested by Honduras to United States March 5 last. Honduras denies presence of troops numbering neighborhood thousand, ordinarily maintaining only twenty-nine soldiers this district with additional twenty at present.
Ewing