Office of the Historian

File No. No. 614.119/111

The Minister in Guatemala ( Leavell) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Guatemala, October 16, 1918, noon.
[Received October 17, 11.22 a.m.]

My cipher telegram September 20, 10 a.m. Governmental decree has just been issued empowering Custodian Hodgsdon to sell the German-owned Empresa Electrica de Guatemala.1 Text of decree follows by next mail.

Leavell
  1. Note in file: “Telephoned to A. J. R. Mitchell to release goods to Electrica de Guatemala. J.G.L.” (Julius G. Lay, Acting Foreign Trade Adviser of the Department of State.)↩