Mr. Baker to Mr. Gresham.
[Telegram.]
Managua, September 2,
1894.
After three days’ delay in acknowledging my communication delivered under your instructions, by cable, August 29, the Government of Nicaragua refuses to accede to your demand that prisoners be given trial. They contend that they are not bound to give them trial by either the treaty of 1867 or by the laws of Nicaragua. * * *
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