No. 344. 2Honduras, and Costa Rica, the remaining thirty per centum consisting of Salvadorian professional agitators and trouble makers men who make their living by always espousing the wrong cause in national matters here. have been reliably informed that the meeting was by no means the angelic and decently conducted affair described in the enclosed clipping, but that, on the contrary, perfect pandemonium prevailed and that the speeches made were vitiolic and most intemperate in denunciation of the Government of the United States, and especially blunt against the administration of President Wilson and the Secretary of State.
And am inclined to believe that the meeting was aided and abetted by the Government of Salvador, because Doctor Enrique Cañas, the Master of the Diplomatic Ceremonial of the Foreign Office here, a position corresponding to that of Third Assistant Secretary of State in our State Department, was present at the meeting in question and, along with others, signed the protocol of protest, which, as stated in the clipping, is to be laid before our Government in Washington by Doctor Policarpo Bonilla, ex President of Honduras and an emigrado político from that country, who has the reputation throughout Central America of being a man devoid of all principle. Personally, can vouch for the fact that he is an implacable enemy of the Government and people of the United States.
However, as am sure that the Department is in possession of Bonilla antecedents, consider it unnecessary to say anything more concerning his general unsavory character. have long since heard of his boast that as he and Mr. John Barrett, of the Pan American Bureau, are warm personal