817.00/4961: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10 p.m.]
187. Reconnoitering planes report that Major Floyd party occupied San Albino today without resistance; that throughout Ocotal region individuals and groups were observed apparently returning [Page 445] to farms and villages as if normal conditions were at hand; that the considerable group seen last week at Telpaneca is reported to have been broken up and returned to vocations declaring they are tired of war; and finally that Sandino is reported to have turned all articles possible into cash and is now headed down Coco River with few men. President Diaz has just showed me a message from telegraph operator at Somoto reporting all quiet there and that Salgado, referred to in my 182 July 28, 5 p.m.,47 advised that [the] telegraph operator that having learned that Sandino is finished he is disbanding his men who are returning to their homes in Las Sabanas district.
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