No. 394.
Mr. Valera to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Washington, July 12, 1884. (Received July 14.)
The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Spain, has the honor to bring to the knowledge of the honorable F. T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State of the United States, that, under date of to-day, he has received a communication from the consul of Spain at Savannah, Ga., wherein he informs him that the Cuban filibusters have made various deposits of arms, munitions, and dynamite as well in the vicinity of New Orleans and at a point westward of Mobile, as in the keys of Florida in the neighborhood of Key West, and in Turk’s Island, from which point they propose to remove those munitions of war to Cuba in small vessels, with the object of better frustrating the vigilance of the war vessels which navigate that part of the Gulf of Mexico.
Reiterating the most sincere thanks to the honorable Secretary of State for what his Government is doing to the end of preventing attempts against peace and order in the territory of a friendly nation, the undersigned begs him that, if it be possible, the proper steps may be taken to discover the reported deposits of arms and munitions, and he improves, &c.,