817.00/2715: Telegram

The Special Military Attaché at Managua ( Miller ) to the Secretary of State

5. Military Intelligence. Elections terminated yesterday without any disturbance whatsoever in the country. Fifty-seven thousand votes were cast Sunday and approximately 35,000 yesterday. Incomplete preliminary returns furnished by the Government show [Page 306] 80,000 votes cast in the two days of which Conservatives have 52,700 and Coalition 27,300. Urtecho, independent Conservative, appears to have polled less than 1500 votes. Will advise later as to final result.

Coalition Party is protesting election in many places and will doubtless appeal to State Department.

Miller