818.00/733
The Costa Rican Agent (Lara) to the Acting Secretary of State
Excellency: I regret to say that I am compelled to inform again Your Excellency that notwithstanding the many advises already given to Your Excellency in due time of hostile combinations being publicly organized in Nicaragua and of the invasion of the territory of Costa-Rica with its disastrous consequences, a second invasion has taken place within the territory of Costa-Rica during the last week.
And this notwithstanding Costa-Rica has proposed to Your Excellency that upon reliable assurance that this hostile movement should cease and these armed forces be concentrated within the interior of Nicaragua, the Government of Costa-Rica would withdraw its army to the end that hostilities on the part of Nicaragua might cease and Costa-Rica be relieved from the burden of maintaining an army for defensive purposes in a causeless warfare on the part of Nicaragua.
I may inform Your Excellency further that this last invasion was put to flight and took refuge within the territory of Nicaragua. The invaders were for the second time routed and expulsed from the Costa-Rican territory, but when they were flying in defeat and arrived to the boundaring line in [sic] the side of Nicaragua, they shot against the troops of Costa-Rica and the Nicaraguan Government has refused once more to comply with the duties of a neighbouring country by disarming and concentrating the revolutionists.
[Page 844]The aim of this note is not that of insisting with the Government of the United States in order to obtain the stop of a repetition of such outrageous attempts from the Government of Nicaragua against a country like Costa-Rica that has been such a sincere friend of the American people,—no, I consider useless to insist upon something that up to the present time has not been obtained. My only wish is to present facts before Your Excellency.
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