817.00/5222: Telegram
The Minister in Honduras (Summerlin) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:54 p.m.]
12. Department’s No. 2, January 3, 6 p.m. This afternoon President Paz stated to me that within 3 days a sufficiently large Honduranean force will have arrived at the border with a view to preventing any of Sandino’s forces from entering Honduras and that specific orders have been given to arrest and intern either at Yuscaran or Choluteca any of them who do cross the border.
He added that should these measures prove ineffective he would make the request contained in the final sentence of the Department’s telegram under acknowledgment. Repeated to Nicaragua.