817.00/6434
The Chargé in Nicaragua (Hanna) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 25.]
Sir: Supplementing my telegram No. 244 of October 4, 12 Noon, I have the honor to inform the Department that the eight prisoners referred to therein were deported from Corinto on October 5, 1929, aboard the American steamer Colombia of the Panama Mail Steamship Company.
Consul Steger at Corinto informed the Legation by telephone late in the afternoon of October 4 that the deportees had been given neither passports nor visas to permit them to enter any foreign country and that the master of the Colombia had refused to accept them as passengers for that reason. The Legation immediately communicated with the Nicaraguan Government which instructed the com andante at Corinto to provide the men with passports and to see that they were supplied with the necessary visas to permit them to be landed at some port between Corinto and San Francisco.
Consul Steger reported on October 5 that the master of the Colombia still refused to accept these passengers on the ground that they did not possess the necessary documents to permit their entry into Mexico, to which country the Nicaraguan Government wished to send them. I communicated again with the Foreign Office and was informed that the Nicaraguan Government assumed full responsibility for any losses which might be incurred by the company as a result of the transportation of these passengers. I transmitted this information to Consul Steger at Corinto by telephone and with this understanding the master of the Colombia accepted the deportees as passengers. Consul Steger reports that they were issued tickets for Champerico, Guatemala.
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