The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-16
t old That Guatemala
Must Observe w ash
ington Conventions.
MUST GIVE NO AID
10 RE V OH TON
State Department Heeds Com
plants of Neutrality Violations
and Sends Another Warship
to Back Up Its Protest.
Bonilla's Rebellion
Grows Larger.

Washington, January 16.-The Amer
lean legation at Guatemala City has
been instructed by the State Depart
ment TO make vigorous representations
10 President Estrada Cabrera for the
enforcement of tho WASHINGTON con-
vcns In connection with the reyolu-
tionary movement In Honduras, headed
oy Manuel Bonllla.
\ statement issued by the State De-
1artmcnt to-day declares that the
American legation at Guatemala City
Tas 80 instructed because of repeat
cd complaints that the Bonilla move
ment was receiving active aid and
support in Guatemala, and in view OF
information Of tho arminE OF the
Hornet"
The protected cruiser Tacoma has
been ordered to Join the gunboat Mar
ietta in patrollinE the Atlantic coast
Of Guatemala and Honduras and tho
Hornet will be kept under surveil-
lance. The statement follows:
Upon repeated complaints that the
present Bonilia revolution in Honduras
Is receiving active aid and support In
Guatemala. and in Wow of Information
of the arminR of the Hornet, which
was lately permitted to leave New Or
leans because OF lack OF evidence of
the warlikc purpose OF its use. the de-
partmcnt has instructed the legation
NJ Guatemala City to make to Presi-
dent Estrada Cabrera vigorous repre-
sensations for tho enforcement aud
observance by him of tho Washington
conventions, and has requested the
Navy Department TO order the Tacoma
to toin the Marietta on the coast OF
Honduras and Guatemala where a coll
Tier has been stationed In order that
the presence of American warships
may be uninterrupted and tho impor-
tant American interests concerned NAV
In rot tod -.
under surveillance pending decision
az to investigation by the Attorneys
General TO determine i. whether tho
neutrality statutes of the United States
have not been violated
The only Information which has
reached the department to-day was
contained In n telegram from the min
lister to Honduras. which Indicated
that there was apprehension or an
expedition of Honduranian e1iIes who
would attempt to cross tho frontier
from Nicaragua in the neighborhond
OF Choluteca. This rumor Ia hardly
credited by tho department owing 10
the ample assurances OF President Es-
tradn and his expressed disposition
scrupulously to enforce the Washing
ton convention.
Senior Sanchez Latour, charge daft
fasras OF the Guatemalan legation here.
tonight issued the following state
mont:
Referring to the complaints against
the government OF Guatemala. the lc-
CATION OF the latter in Washington
states that II IS In receipt of adviccs
denying the charges communicated to
the Department Of State that II has
countenanced any violation whatso-
ever OF the Washington conventions
AS matter OF fact, large force of
the regular army has been carefully
patrolling the Hondnran frontier for
considerable period for the express
purpose OF preventing such violation.
The legation furthermore most ON
phatically denied that the gunboat
Hornet has either been armed within
| Guatemalan Jurisdiction or has re-
ccived any armament from that
source"