Office of the Historian

815.00/2335: Telegram

The Minister in Honduras (Morales) to the Secretary of State

Tegucigalpa, April 4, 1922—10 a.m.
[Received 9:30 p.m.]

39. By Congressional decree of yesterday martial law was declared throughout the Republic of Honduras.

The President respectfully requests that two war vessels be sent to Honduras one at Amapala and the other at La Ceiba. I suggest that his request be complied with. He fears invasion by political refugees from Salvador and Nicaragua.

Ferrara already in Honduranean territory. Telegraphic communication with Salvador cut off.

Morales