Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
PEACE TERMS CABLEO
Advices Received From Minis
ters Merry and Combs.
FORCES TO BE DISARMED
Treaty to Be Negotiated Within Two
Months.
WILL EXCHANGE PRISONERS
Future Difficulties to Be Referred to
the Presidents of This Country
and Mexico.
FORCES TO BE DISARMED
WILL EXCHANGE PRISONERS

News of the successful termination Of
the deliberations of the representatives. of
Guatemala, Salvador and Honduras was
received at both the State and Navy De-
partments this morning through cable mes
sages from United States Ministers Merry
and Combs and Commander Mulligan, COM
manding the Marblehead. Commander Null
ligan said in his dispatch: Conference
has terminate Treaty of peace has been
sigred. Proceed at once to Acajutla." This
dispatch was dated at San Jose last night
and is accepted to mean that the represen-
tatives OF Guatemala disembarked at San
Jose and that the Marblehead would take
the representatives of Salvador and Hon
duras to Acajutla.
Terms Of the Treaty.
According to Ministers Merry and Combs
Guatemala, Salvador and Honduras have
agreed to the following articles of peace:
Article /. Peace established; withdrawal
of armies within three days; disarmament
in eight days
Article 2. Exchange of prisoners; the re-
lease of political prisoners; general amnesty
recommended.
"Article3. Vigilance of emigrados in order
to prevent abuse of asylum.
Article 4. To negotiate treaty Of friend
ship, commerce and navigation within two
months.
Article s. Any difficulties over treaty and
all future concrete complaints between the
three countries shall be submitted to the
arbitration of the President of the United
States and the President OF Mexico.
Article g. This treaty made with moral
sanction of mediatng nations and others
assisting at conference, namely, costa Rlca
and Nicaragua"
Future Meeting Place Not Known.
The State Department has no advices as
to just when and where the three Central
American nations will hold their meeting to
negotiate formal treaty of friendship, in
accordance with the articles agreed upon.
Neither has Mr.. Munox. the Guatemalan
minister. any advices on that point, further
than the mere statement in the article that
the conference shall be held within two
months 1t is believed by diplomats that
these negotiations may be conducted either
In Mexico or the United States. because of
the formal recognition by the Central
American country of this country and Mex
leo arbiters of their difficulties.
The recognition In the articles of Costa
Rica and Nicaragua as constructive parties
to the peace conference is regarded by state
Department officials as being very sisni1-
cant in that 1t really makes all five Cen
tral American governHents parties to the
peace negotiations, and will prevent any
complaints which these governments might
| offer as to the terms had they not been
recognized in the conference.
The State Department has not had ad-
| vices which indicate positively that Hon
| duras was represented in the conference by
its own conferees, but 1t Is assumed that
such was the 1t Is not yet known
whether Costa Rica and Nicaragua were
represented by their own conferees or dele
gated their interests to Mr.. Merry, United
States minister accredited to those coun-
tries.