817.00/5141: Telegram

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

68. Your telegram No. 32, November 14, 5 p.m. President Paz informed me this morning that an investigation of reports from the region in question was ordered by him yesterday. He said that reports received by him indicated that some property had been destroyed and several Honduraneans had been killed at Santa Rita and San [Page 450] Luis in Honduras by American marines and constabulary forces and that Liberal civilians from Nicaragua had accompanied the marines.

President Paz stated that he believes that some Liberals, both Nica-raguans and Honduraneans, by deceiving the marines are endeavoring to cause trouble between Honduras and Nicaragua. Repeated to Nicaragua.

Summerlin