718.1915/341a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Panama ( Price )

23. Your March 6, 11 p.m.72

You may inform President Porras that the Department of State was today advised by the Government of Costa Rica73 that in reply to the message of this Government—to which reference is made in Department’s March 5, 6 p.m. to you—instructions had been given for the Costa Rican troops which had invaded the territory of Panama on the Atlantic Coast to withdraw immediately to the line of the Sixaola River and for the Costa Rican troops on the Pacific Coast to advance no further. In view of this fact, the Government of the United States confidently expects that all hostilities will cease and that the troops of Panama will be withdrawn to the Cerro Pando–Punta Burica line.

Hughes
  1. Not printed.
  2. Telegram no. 39, Mar. 6, from the Chargé in Costa Rica; not printed.