File No. 714.1515/48
The Minister of Guatemala to the Secretary of State
Washington, December 24, 1917.
Excellency: I have the honor to inform your excellency that I received to-day a cablegram from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, requesting me to communicate to your excellency that Messrs. Víctor Sánchez Ocaña, Licenciado Marcial Prem, and Engineers [Page 794] Felipe Rodrigueź, Lisandro Sandoval and Florencio Santizo, who form the mission established by the protocol signed in Tegucigalpa on the 20th of September 1917, for the friendly arrangement of the boundary question between Guatemala and Honduras, sailed for Honduras on the day before.
My Government, desiring always to maintain the best relations with the Government of Honduras, has hastened to send with pleasure the mission above mentioned, thus carrying out at once that which is agreed to in the protocol of Tegucigalpa, of which I had the honor to send a copy to your excellency with my note referring to the matter; and once again I beg your excellency to recommend to the Government of Honduras, now that our mission is already in Tegucigalpa, that the conditions of the protocol be carried out, and in so doing your excellency will again make use of that friendly mediation which your excellency has so kindly promised to us in the prompt arrangement of the matter.
I beg to renew to your excellency the most expressive thanks on the part of my Government, and avail [etc.]