File No. 839.00/885.
The Secretary of State to the Minister of the Dominican Republic.
Washington, September 26, 1913.
Sir: I Have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 20th. instant, in which, referring to the entrance of the Seminole into Puerto Plata [etc.]
I have the honor to advise you in reply that, the Department has telegraphed1 to the American missions in the countries whose vessels regularly touch Dominican ports that this Government will respect the blockade of Puerto Plata, Sánchez and Samaná, and has instructed them so to advise the Governments to which they are accredited. It has also requested that the Secretary of the Navy should station a ship at Puerto Plata and another in Samaná Bay the commanders of which should lend their good offices with a view to causing the blockade to be respected.
Accept [etc.]
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