Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 11893.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Cuban Minister.

Department of State,
Washington, February 27, 1908.

No. 241.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 19th instant, in which you inquire whether the decision reached by this Government recognizing Cuba’s rights in the matter of the wrecks of the Alfonso XII and the Maine also applies to the wrecks of all the Spanish warships destroyed during the war of 1898 in Cuban waters.

In reply I have the honor to say that your inquiry has been given due course, and the department hopes to be able to answer it at an early date.

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.