Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-15
NICARACUAN REVOLUTION Was
PROMOTED BY GALES, ACCORDING
TO FACSIMILES OF DOCUMENTS

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NEW YORK, Nov. ID (P9 The
Hearst newspapers tomorrow in the
second of a series of articles copy
righted by the Washington Herald will
print purported facSimiiieS Of docu-
fneflts from the secret archives OF the
Mexican government showing that the
Corinto peace conference arranged by
the American state department in
October of last year in the hope OF
ending the Nicaraguan revolt was
broken up by President Gales, OF Mex
leo. res t3f.s sI
FacSimiles of documents purporting
to show that Mexico financed the re-
cent Nicaraguan revolution were print
ed by the Hearst newspapers today.
One of the documents to be printed
tomorrow is a telegram purporting to
have been signed by General j. Al
varez, chief of President Gales staff,
to Aaron Saenz, hen secretary of the
tons 1t instructed Saenz to have
Mexican department of foreign rela-
Mexican Ambassador Grav7oto, at
Guatemala, inform Mr. Juan BautiSta
Sacasa, Nicaraguan liberal leader, that
if the peace arrangements at Corinto
were not based on arrangements con-
cluded in MeN leo City with liberal
elements controlling the executive
power, the Mexican government would
retire all moral and material aid i'm
mediately.
Ambassador Cravioto's delivery Of
the Gales ultimatum to Or. Sacasa, in
Guatemala City, resulted in hurried
conferences between, SacaSa and his
advisers, the article will say. Several
J days were required for Sacasa to con-
vince the liberal delegates of, the nee
essity of breaking off negotiations, but
when fully informed of the Mexican
governments position, they, agreed
In discussing the breakup of the
peace conference with Lawrence Dennis,
American charge d'affaires in Mica
ragua, the article will say, one liberal
delegate admitted openly that his
party had the unlimited backing of the
Mexican government and seemed in
clined to boast of it.
The following translation sof the
purported dispatch of Alvarez to Saenz
is made in the article:
(SeaD
Telegram
Mexico, Federal District.
presidents General Staff,
October 18, 126.
For the Secretary of Foreign
Relations.
':Mr Secretary:
"By order Of the president, please
be good enough to communicate ur-
gently with Ambassador Cravioto in
Guatemala and have him inform
Sacasa that if the peace arrangements
at Corinto are not based on arrange
ments concluded in this city, with
liberal elements controlling the execu-
tive power, the Mexican government
will retire all moral and material aid
,inin1ediateee Instruct Cravioto to Sus-
pend all financial aid to Sacasa if the
latter does not reply satisfactory.
(SignatureS).
"Chief of the Presidents STAFF,
General j. Alvarez
Fac-Simile of the reply of Saenz to
Alvarez is given in the article:
Telegram.
@Mexico, Federal District,
Department of Foreign Relations.
"October 25, 126.
"The General Staff.
mo. 1760.
ITO the chief of the presidents
staff:
please inform the president that
Cravito todaa communicates the fol-
lowing:
"'Sacasa, after a long conference
with Zepeda and De La 1Selva, decided
to discontinue the peace conferences at
Corinto and to depart Immediately for
Puerto Cabeza to establish the con-
stitutional government. At a meeting
/ held with the ministers of Salvador
! Costa Riea and Honduras and the for
eign minister of Guatemala, we agreed
to recommend to our respective gov
ernments the immediate recognition OF
Sacasa in order to len moral force to
his government. beg you urgently
to call this recOnlnlendatio to the at
tention of the president, recommend
ing to him that Mexico should be the
first to extend recognition in order to
asoldify our policy in Nicaragua for the
future. have given fifty thousand
pesos. to Sacasa for pres-linary ex-
penses Incidental to the installation
of his government
81 communicated this to you for
your information and await your fur
ther instructions"
Secretary .Saenz."
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