File No. 763.72/4548
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua ( Jefferson)
[Telegram]
Washington,
May 11, 1917, 4 p.m.
Your May 10, 3 p.m. You are instructed to inform President Chamorro that this Government would view with gratification such [Page 279] action on the part of Nicaragua as has been taken by Guatemala. Guatemala’s action was outlined to you in Department’s telegram of May 2, 6 p.m., repeated to you by the Legation at San Salvador.
Lansing