File No. 819.74/10.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister .

No. 29.]

Sir: Referring to past correspondence on the subject of wireless telegraph stations in Panama, a copy of a letter dated January 23, 1912, from the Secretary of the Navy, setting forth the desires of that Department with regard thereto is enclosed for your preliminary information.

The Department is studying carefully the proposals of the Navy Department in order to determine the form which negotiations looking to the realization of the Navy Department’s desires should take.

I have [etc.]

P. C. Knox.