File No. 763.72111/5060a
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Peru ( McMillin)1
Ascertain from Peruvian Government what its attitude would be toward vessels calling at Peruvian ports, which vessels are owned by the United States Government but operated by the Panama Railway Co., the carriage of the articles carried by these vessels to be paid by the United States Government in the same manner as carriage on supplies by any other commercial vessels entering United States ports, engaged in commerce and submitting to rules and regulations of neutral ports applicable to merchant ships not flying naval or transport flag, and not under command of naval or army officers, but it is probable that some of the vessels will be equipped with six-pounder guns as a protection against possible submarine activities.
- The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Chargé in Colombia.↩