File No. 2553/8–9.

Chargé Brown to the Secretary of State.

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.

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.