The Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua ( Jefferson)
Department has received cable from Legation Tegucigalpa dated July 2, stating that the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Honduras had informed Legation that Commandant of Arms at Danli had telegraphed that Nicaraguan forces (100 infantry and 40 cavalry) under political chief of Nueva Segovia had invaded Honduran territory as far as Las Trojas and Potrerillos, destroying crops and sending men and women to Nicaragua as prisoners.
You are instructed immediately to request full information from Government of Nicaragua as to the above report, which, you may say, if true might seriously affect the tranquillity of Central America. You may add that the Government of the United States, particularly at this time, is most interested in aiding in any way in its power to promote tranquillity throughout the Western Hemisphere.