Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 723.2515/289.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister to Peru.

Department of State,
Washington, March 17, 1913.

Sir: The Department encloses for your strictly confidential information a copy of a despatch from the Legation at Santiago, dated January 30, 1913, relative to the possible settlement of the Tacna Arica dispute, and a copy of the Department’s reply to Minister Fletcher.

You will be guided in general by the instruction to Mr. Fletcher, but should any situation as that indicated in the instruction arise, you will, before committing this Government, telegraph for special instructions.

I am [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.