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File No. 180/69.

The Chilean Chargé to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]
Chilean Legation,
Washington, August 11, 1910.
No. 18.]

Sir: In compliance with special instructions from His Excellency the President of Chile, I have the honor to transmit herewith to your excellency a letter which the most excellent Mr. Montt handed to me as he was leaving New York for delivery to His Excellency the President of the United States, and to beg that your excellency will kindly forward it to its high destination.

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I avail myself of this opportunity, Mr. Secretary, to express to your excellency the cordial thanks of His Excellency the President of Chile for the attentions and honors that were lavished upon him during his stay in this country, and at the same time bear witness to the indefatigable and delicate consideration displayed by the representatives of the American Government, Messrs. Chandler Hale, Thomas C. Dawson, Maj. Gen. William Harding Carter, and Capt. Harry P. Hulse, United States Navy, in waiting on his excellency and suite from the time of their arrival in the United States.

I have, etc.,

A. Yoacham.
[Inclosure—Translation.]

The President of Chile to President Taft.

New York, August 9, 1910.

Mr. President: It is very gratifying to me to send to your excellency my most cordial acknowledgments of the special courtesies with which your excellency and your excellency’s Government have honored me during my stay in the United States.

These attentions will be appreciated in my country as a notable indication of the eminently cordial attitude of the policy of your excellency. I sincerely hope that each day may more firmly cement the friendship of the United States and Chile, and that the progress and prosperity which the United States have acquired through the energy of its sons and the worth of its rulers may continue on an ascending scale.

My wife charges to add to my own her expressions of gratitude, and begging your excellency to convey our salutations to Mrs. Taft, I present to your excellency assurance of my highest consideration.

Pedro Montt.