File No 815.51/169 b.

The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: As the Counsellor of our Embassy was told last evening, I yesterday signed with General Paredes, the Special Minister of Honduras, a convention to secure the loan which it is expected will in the near future be made to refund the debt of [Page 555] Honduras, and in view of the interest of the Council of Foreign Bondholders, I have cabled our Embassy at London to give this information to the British Foreign Office.

I am [etc.]

P. C. Knox.