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

File No. 837.77/74A.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, June 8, 1912.

The British Embassy represents that it is informed that the Cuban Central Railroads, Limited, a British company, has been granted the concession for the Caibarién-Nuevitas road and has begun construction; and that the rival project is simply a swindling scheme directed against the British company’s vested interests.

Knox.