Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part II

File No. 2553/8–9.

Chargé Brown to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Guatemala, May 12, 1907.

No. 10.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy with translation appended of the reply made by President Estrada Cabrera to Minister Lee’s message of congratulation on the former’s escape from death by the explosion of a dynamite mine under his carriage on the 29th of April last.

I have, etc.,

Philip Brown.

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

President Estrada to Minister Lee.

Guatemala, May 5, 1907.

Honorable Sir: In Your Excellency’s most esteemed communication under date of the 29th ultimo, you congratulate me in the name of your Government and in your own personally because I escaped unhurt in the attempt made against my life on that same day.

I accept with gratitude this high manifestation of courtesy and consideration from the American Government with whom Guatemala is united by the closest ties of friendship, and I beg of Your Excellency to express to His Excellency Mr. President Roosevelt and to his Cabinet the acknowledgment of my sincere gratitude, which I also extend to Your Excellency, of whom I remain a true and attentive servant.

Manuel Estrada C.