File No. 832.73/143a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil ( Morgan)

[Telegram]

Request the Minister for Foreign Affairs to inform the Minister for Public Works that Mr. Frank Carney, the agent of the Central & South American Telegraph Co., is authorized by that company to renew the application made by him on April 12, 1915, for a concession in his own name for the laying of a cable from Rio de Janeiro to Cuba touching at Fernando de Noronha and places in the West Indies and to negotiate the same.

If you think it advisable in order that this concession may be secured by the American company, you may inform the Foreign Office of the interest this Government takes in the granting of the concession.

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