A wavering line running in a southwesterly direction from Cape Gracias a Dios on the Caribbean to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific divides the two Central American Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua. The exact position of this line has been the cause of dispute for many years. Under a treaty signed in 1894, the Government of Spain was called in to arbitrate. The decision awarded in 1906 was rejected by Nicaragua because of "irregularities in procedure." A conference in Washington in 1918 was equally fruitless.
Last week the Nicaraguan Government put...
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