File No. 8258.
Department of State,
Washington, August 31,
1907.
No. 133.]
You are requested to bring to the notice of the foreign office such
portions of this communication as pertain to Argentine territory.
(Same, mutatis mutandis, to Brazil, No. 25; Chile, No. 72; Great
Britain, No. 510; Mexico, No. 302; Panama, No. 55; Peru, No.
19.)
[Inclosure.]
The Acting Secretary of the
Navy to the Secretary of
State.
Navy Department,
Washington, August 28,
1907.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that by
direction of the President 16 battle ships of the Atlantic Fleet
will leave the United States in the early part of December, bound
for San Francisco. They expect to coal from colliers at the island
of Trinidad, on or about December 22; Rio de Janeiro, on or about
January 10, 1908; Punta Arenas, on or about January 31, 1908;
Callao, Peru, on or about February 16, 1908; and Magdalena Bay, on
or about March 8.
It is expected that liberty will be granted in Rio de Janeiro and
Callao, concerning which the commander in chief, Admiral Evans, will
confer with the port authorities upon his arrival.
The torpedo flotilla, consisting of the auxiliary Arethusa and six destroyers, will probably touch at
Culebra, Trinidad, Para, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires,
Punta Arenas, Talcahuana, Callao, Panama, Acapulco, Magdalena, and
San Francisco, but the dates upon which they will arrive can not be
fixed, owing to the fact that they are subject to the conditions of
the weather which may from time to time prevail.
I have, etc.,
