File No. 811.3335/31
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Buenos Aires, July 29, 1917, 6 p.m.
1000 sailors of the fleet marched through the city this morning with their own music and municipal guard and band to the races, stopping to lay memorial wreaths on the statues of San Martin and Washington. At the races Minister for Foreign Affairs came to me with a message from the President of Argentina to say that hearing that the fleet was planning to sail next Tuesday he desired the [Page 8] Admiral to be informed that he was at full liberty to extend his visit longer if he pleased and asked me to communicate this invitation at once to my Government.