Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

Minister Combs to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Legation,
Lima, October 18, 1910.

Minister of Ecuador at Lima has formally by note presented proposition for direct negotiations. Minister for foreign affairs of Peru will probably decline to consider it or any proposition, relying on mediators for solution.

It is thought Ecuador will base on this refusal a renunciation of arbitration treaty of 1887.

Combs.