File No. 853.00/95.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Portuguese Minister.

No. 72.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your note of the 7th instant informing the department of the receipt by you of a telegram from Lisbon which reads as follows:

Republic proclaimed. Provisional Government presided over by Doctor Theophilo Braza. Please communicate happy intelligence to Government and fellow countrymen. Perfect order. Bernardino Machado, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In reply I beg to state the American minister at Lisbon has been directed by cable to maintain such intercourse with the de facto authorities as is necessary for the security of interests of American citizens in Portugal, and to maintain provisional relations with those authorities, pending the obvious reestablishment of constitutional order.

Accept, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.

[To be continued in Foreign Relations, 1911.]