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REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Inhz dy me, NARI Da! e 2458 President himoelf, not to stop short of plain murder if thoir sa may seem thus more nearly assured of suecose, even though their own lives must be sacririced in the ead: Yesterday an attempt was made to destroy one of the bridges on the Pacific Railway by a bomb. Night before last a plot was uncovered which contemplated the bombing of the soledad Catholic Churon, and a German priest, Father Kerns, Treasuror of the local Cathedral, is said to have saved his own life only Low days ago by heading the warning that he was marked for assassination.
Being able to refer to theae acts of violence, already committed and or contemplated, it was not difficult for the Ministor of Public Safety to convince Presidont González Viques that atronger noasures than mere 1deaa had become imperatively necessary. He advises me that he expects to break up every meeting or which he has knowledge, and that in the process aome heads may be broken or it may even be necessary to tako some lives, but he is resolved to dominate the situation with a strong hand before it becomes entirely out of hand. cdo oltod with muon satisfaction the procedure reported to have been followed recently by President Araujo (whom ha visited a short time ago and whom he greatly admires) at Sonsonate, Salvador, in a momewhat similar situation.
To my inquiry as to whether or not foreignors were implicated, he states that except for possibly one or two agitators who are believed to be Nicaraguana,

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