Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-03-06 | Page 1 | New Secretary of State Sends Strong Notes

NEW SECRETARY OF STATE SENDS STRONG NOTES United States Ready to Enforce En-force Peaceful Solution, He Asserts WASHINGTON, Mar. 6. (By Tho Associated Press. I "eissation of hostilities hos-tilities between Paiuuns and Costa Rica Is demanded In notes which, it w is learned tonight, the state department depart-ment had dispatched today to the gov-I gov-I ornmi-nts of those two countries by Charles E. Hughes, new secretary of state. This action was the firat of Iho Harding administration In the realm of foreign affairs and was said to hav e been based on the grounds of broad gpedlency s the dispute between tho Central American republics Involved Interests in the Panama canal zone. ll Mllll SI M l I M A peaceful solution of the dispute ovi-r CotO Oil the basis of tho White award is understood to have conveyed ! the impression that this country stood ready to enforce, if necessary, a ! peuceful solution. Dispatch of the notes followed conferences con-ferences between President Harding. Secretary of State Hughes and John V. "Weeks and Edwin Denby. Den-by. new secretaries of war and navy Mr Hughes took up tho subject of the .iN,ut.- with I'm!" r Se retar Davis Immediately after his Induction I Into office and later spent nearly two hours with Mr.. Harding. WEEKS I I1ID IN Secretary Weeks was called In soon ift.r tin conference began and pre-. pre-. :.icd latest dispatches from tho canal zone- Mr Denby discussed the question ques-tion later with the president Repli s from Panama and Costa Rica to the not'-s dispatched s"verai days ago bj former Secretary Colby were received today. That from Pan-I Pan-I ama wus said to have expressed a wll-I wll-I ItngtiesS to accept ih ofler of the United St iles In attempting to settle i Mo' tiispul. . b'lf Hi-- one ironi 'ota Rica was described us unsatisfactory. oo