File No. 837.156/131.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams—Paraphrases.]

I have sent a note in pursuance of your telegram of January 15. It would be well to consider that the land to be ceded to the bridge company is really a military reservation and is the only available place where, except for Camp Colombia, United States troops could be quartered in Havana.

Beaupré.