File No. 714.1515/42
The Secretary of State to Minister Leavell
Washington, December 13, 1917, 6 p.m.
Department’s November 11, 4 p.m. American Consul at Puerto Cortez reports from personal inspection that he has found a body of fifty-seven Guatemalan troops camped at the end of the Cuyamel Railroad, also fifty more soldiers at Sinchado.
Point out to the Guatemalan Government that such military movements do not coincide with the understood purpose and accepted good faith of the Government of Guatemala when the Government of the United States was requested to mediate the boundary dispute between the Republics of Honduras and Guatemala. Such action is likewise in violation of Article IV of the protocol entered into by the respective Governments September 17, 1917.