817.00/4867: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:40 p.m.]
141. Admiral Latimer, General Feland and the American forces in Nicaragua deserve highest praise for having effected a wonderful disarmament with minimum of friction or bloodshed. To date American forces have received 11,600 rifles, 303 machine guns and five and a half million cartridges, of which the Liberals turned in over 3,000 rifles, 26 machine guns and one and a half million cartridges.
June 6th will probably be set as the last date upon which payment will be accepted for delivery of arms, after which any person found with them in their possession will be punished by Nicaraguan law.
General Sandino is the only remaining revolutionary leader of consequence who has refused to lay down his arms. He is headed [Page 350] for the Honduranean boundary with about 200 followers including 60 Honduraneans. He left San Rafael May 24 for Yali headed probably for Dipilto and Danli.76 Besides arms he has several hundred mules.
Repeated to Tegucigalpa.
- In Honduras.↩