714.1515/550: Telegram

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

26. Department’s telegram number 13, February 11, 7 p.m. President Paz states that the Cuyamel Fruit Company has constructed beyond Cacao and without authority 400 meters of tram line for transportation of fruit to the railway head and that despite the fact that his Government considers this as Honduranean territory and not in dispute, on the 11th instant he called Turnbull, senior official of Cuyamel Company in Honduras, to Tegucigalpa by plane and personally gave peremptory orders for the suspension of all construction work in that region. Turnbull returned to the north coast by plane yesterday morning. Repeated to Guatemala.

Summerlin