File No. 816.00/157.

The American Minister to Salvador to the Secretary of State.

Sir: Referring to the Department’s telegram of the 16th instant, 4 p.m.,1 asking if the President of Salvador would furnish me copies of telegrams proving the withdrawal of Guatemalan troops from the Guatemalan-Salvadoran frontier, and also referring to my telegram of the 17th instant, 2 p.m.,1 advising the Department that at my informal request the Minister for Foreign Affairs had promised to furnish me copies of the before-mentioned telegrams, and adding that I would forward the same as soon as I had had them copied and translated, I now have the honor to inclose herewith a copy and translation of three of the telegrams in question.1

The telegram of Colonel Santos, from Chalchuapa, dated the 13th instant, addressed to the President of Salvador, says “that the troops of Estrada Cabrera are abandoning the provisional barracks which they had near the frontier, and that they are now allowing people to pass from there, and vice versa.”

The telegram of General Cristales, from Ahuaehapan, informs the President “that the Guatemalan forces which were on the frontier are concentrating and that all remains quiet,”

The telegram of Colonel Colocho, from Metapan, dated the 14th instant, advises the President that “the Guatemalan troops are abandoning the positions which they had on the frontier, there remaining only some squads of a few soldiers pursuing smugglers and malefactors.”

The Minister for Foreign Affairs informed me that President Araujo had received many other telegrams from the frontier during the 13th and 14th instant referring to the change of conditions there for the better, but that the three telegrams which are inclosed herewith are the only ones that state specifically that the Guatemalan troops were being withdrawn from the Guatemalan-Salvadoran frontier.

I have been informed by both President Araujo and Minister for Foreign Affairs Castro Ramírez that conditions on the northern frontier are now perfectly tranquil, and that no further trouble there is apprehended for the present, at least.

I have [etc.]

William Heimke.
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