File No. 763.72111/854

The Minister in Uruguay (Grevstad) to the Secretary of State

No. 757]

Sir: I have the honor to report that a number of secret installations for wireless telegraphy have been discovered and dismantled [Page 692] in the River Plate during the last fortnight, most of them in Buenos Aires and other places in Argentina and some in Montevideo. It would seem that these installations or most of them were owned by or in charge of Germans.

It is asserted that a chain of secret German radiographic stations are established along the South Atlantic coast from the Guianas to the Straits of Magellan.

I have [etc.]

Nicolay A. Grevstad