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

File No. 837.77/101.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

Department of State,
Washington , March 3, 1913 .

Sir: Referring to the Department’s No. 193 of February 8 last and subsequent correspondence in regard to the petition addressed by the Cuban Central Railway to the President of Cuba requesting that the concession recently granted to the North Coast Railway Company should be canceled and that it might be granted to the petitioners, I enclose a copy of a note from the British Ambassador at this capital who expresses the hope that this Department will think fit, upon further consideration, to allow the instruction to you, above referred to, to be communicated to the Cuban Government.

The Department desires you to take up the subject with the British Legation in Habana with a view to reaching some common understanding upon the facts of the case about which there seems to be considerable difference of opinion.

I am [etc.]

P. C. Knox.