Office of the Historian

818.00/762: Telegram

The Consul at San José (Chase) to the Acting Secretary of State

San José, July 14, 1919, 4 p.m.
[Received July 16, 12.40 a.m.]

Consular Agent Saxe reports increasing aggravated conditions in Puntarenas, including forcible search by soldiers of one American home and an American seaman robbed of $40 by Tinoco soldiers. [Page 845] Also continued fighting on the Nicaraguan frontier. He suggests, and I strongly recommend sending naval vessel Puntarenas, at least for time. Castine must go to Colon for repairs.

Chase