815.00/2792: Telegram
The Minister in Honduras (Morales) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 21—12:25 a.m.]
108. Numerous attacks have been made upon Government barracks in different places by armed forces. La Owari and Comayagua were attacked today. The Government considers the movement as under way and is expecting a serious attack on the 24th instant. Carias is still in Tegucigalpa. The services of the Arias followers have been accepted by the Government. The President requests that a warship be sent to Amapala for the moral effect it would have upon the situation. He claims his only desire is to maintain the present Government until Congress has the opportunity of deciding the question. He believes that the presence of a warship in Honduran waters will be a guarantee of peace. In view of the Department’s telegram of December 3, 5 p.m., I dislike to transmit this request and I am doing it only at the urgent solicitation of the President.