File No. 811.34537/54.
The American Minister to the Secretary of State.
Habana, March 25, 1911.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this morning of the Department’s instruction No. 266,1 of the 21st instant, in which it is stated that the Acting Secretary of the Navy “knows of no other concession within its province to recommend” in return for the proposed extension at Guantánamo. What I am anxious to receive is instructions which will put me in a position to reply to the note from Sr. Sanguily. As yet only one of the points referred to in that note—the jurisdiction over the entrance to the harbor—appears to have been considered. A survey has been made of the additional land desired by us at Guantánamo, in which speculators have already become interested, and the Cuban authorities will be ready to take definite action as soon as they receive the information for which the secretary asked.
I have, etc.,
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