Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 822.00/224.]

The Secretary of State to the American Legation.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 26, 1912.

The Minister of Panama has called at the Department to urge intercession by this Government in behalf of Eloy Alfaro. Dietrich reports that Alfaro and Páez are being taken to Quito for trial. While this Government fully realizes that it would be inappropriate to make formal representations, it feels nevertheless that a recurrence of such a brutal lynching as occurred at Guayaquil might be unfortunate for the good name of Ecuador.

Knox.