File No. 832.73/143
The Vice Consul in Charge at Rio de Janeiro ( Momsen) to the Secretary of State
Sir: Referring to despatch No. 1068 of December 17, 1917,1 from this Consulate General, I have the honor to report that there was [Page 65] published in the Diario Official (Official Gazette) of March 14, 1918, an order of the Minister of Transportation and Public Works—
granting to Mr. Nelson O’Shaughnessy, representative of the Western Union Telegraph Co., for the company or for any other company which may be organized, permission, without monopoly or special privilege of any kind, to lay and operate two submarine cables from the city of Nictheroy (which is the capital of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and situated directly across the bay from this city): one with landing places on the island of Itaparica, the city of Aracajú, the island of Fernando de Noronha, the cities of Parahyba, Natal and Belem, and from there to the Greater Antilles; and another from Nictheroy to the city of Paranagua, to be connected with Maldonado in the Republic of Uruguay, with permission to be prolonged to the Republic Argentina.
I have [etc.]
- Not printed.↩