723.2515/505: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Shea)
Your October 20, noon, and October 27, 7 p.m.
In answer to confidential request for information Legation in Peru, on October 27, cabled Department as follows: “I am told there is no mobilization Chilean border or any contemplated. One [Page 162] thousand troops have been sent to Huaraz to keep order in central regional congress. One regiment being sent to Puno district for same purpose. No troops sent south.”
If you deem it advisable you may orally and informally convey this information to the Foreign Office with the end in view of allaying what is apparently a misapprehension regarding Peruvian action thus avoiding an incident between Chile and Peru.