715.1715/106: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul in Charge of the Legation in Honduras (Lawton)
Washington, December 11, 1919, 3
p.m.
Your December 4, 11 A.M., and Department’s Dec. 1, 2 P.M., inform Government of Honduras that Department considers the installing of telegraph lines in the disputed territory a violation of the status quo and such lines should therefore be removed. The Department has telegraphed Legation at Managua to take up with Nicaraguan Government question of cutting timber in disputed territory.
Lansing