File No. 715.1715/55
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Honduras ( Curtis)1
Department’s August 21, noon [11 p.m.]. Your August 22, 2 p.m. I have received with much satisfaction your telegram announcing the acceptance by the Honduran Government of the offer of this Government to use its good offices.
The Government of Nicaragua has also accepted offer of its good offices made by this Government and has agreed to the withdrawal of all troops and police into the zone occupied by them previous to May 20, 1918.
You are directed to urge emphatically that no Honduran patrols, forest inspectors, or rural guards proceed further than the zone occupied by them on May 20, 1918.
You may suggest that the Honduran Government designate at an early date the representative who is to confer with the Department and with the representative of Nicaragua.
Ascertain by telegraph from the Legation at Managua the date of the departure for Washington of the Nicaraguan representative.
- The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Minister in Nicaragua.↩