File No. 819.74/73.
The Minister of Panama to the Secretary of State.
Washington, August 25, 1915.
Excellency: After a long exchange of correspondence between the Secretary of Foreign Relations of the Republic of Panama and the Minister of the United States, my Government issued a decree putting the Panama Canal authorities in control of the wireless communications of the Republic with the understanding that the Government of the United States assumed the obligation to build at least four wireless stations at various points of the Panaman territory to be agreed on later, with the object of keeping those parts in easy and constant communication with the capital of the Republic.
My Government has instructed me to say to the Government of your excellency that it is absolutely indispensable for the good of the public service that telegraphic communication be established with the distant Panaman regions known as San Blas and Darien, and as the wireless is controlled by the authorities of the Canal Zone, the Government of the Republic cannot build its own stations, I have been further instructed to ask that your excellency’s Government issue appropriate orders to the Canal Zone authorities to build, on agreement with the Panaman Government, one or two wireless stations on the Atlantic coast called San Blas and one on the Pacific Coast in the Darien district.
These obligations stand in the convention proposed on February 16, 1914, to my Government by the Legation of the United States at Panama.
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