Office of the Historian

818.00/602: Telegram

The Minister in Nicaragua (Jefferson) to the Acting Secretary of State

Managua, May 7, 1919, 4 p.m.
[Received May 8, 12.05 a.m.]

I am informed that Julio Acosta and men now occupy Pena Blanca, Costa Rica, and he has been proclaimed Provisional President. They have telegraphed President Chamorro requesting that they be recognized as belligerents.

No skirmishes reported between contending parties.

Jefferson