File No. 819.73/3.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

Sir: Referring to the Department’s instruction No. 14, of the 15th instant, and to the Department’s telegram of December 16, the Department [Page 1208] encloses herewith for your information and for appropriate action a copy of a letter dated December 13, 1911, from the Acting Secretary of the Navy in which is quoted the following recommendation of the Joint Board of the Army and the Navy, dated November 27, 1911, and approved by the President under date of December 12, 1911:

2. That an understanding be reached with Panama to prevent the establishments of private and commercial wireless installations in its territory.

A copy of an unnumbered despatch,1 dated November 29, 1911, from the American Consulate General at Panama on the same general subject is also enclosed herewith.

I am [etc.]

(For
Mr. Knox
:)
Huntington Wilson.
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