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The Minister in Cuba (Long) to the
Secretary of State
Habana, April 8,
1921.
[Received April 16.]
No. 828
Sir: With reference to the Department’s
instruction No. 325, dated March 26, 1921,13 relative to the proposal for an agreement
concerning the laying of certain cables of All America Cables,
Incorporated, and to the Legation’s despatch No. 822, dated April 5,
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1921, enclosing copies of its
note No. 279 dated March 31, 1921,14 to the Foreign Office, I have
the honor to transmit, herewith, copies of the Foreign Office note (No.
476 April 5, 1921) in reply thereto, which accepts the proposition as
set forth in the Legation’s note No. 279. These copies have been
carefully compared with the original on file here, but the original will
be transmitted on request.
I have [etc.]
[Enclosure—Translation]
The Cuban Secretary of State (Desvernine) to the American Minister (Long)
Habana, April 5,
1921.
No. 476
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s kind note No. 279 of
March 31, last,15 in
which you are pleased to forward, under instructions of the
Government of the United States of America, the proposal of an
agreement concerning certain cables of the All America Cables,
Incorporated, in Guantanamo to take the place of the agreement set
forth in Your Excellency’s note No. 257 dated February 7, last,16 and in that of this Department of
March 4 last,15 to
the effect that the Government of Cuba grant permission to All
America Cables Company, Incorporated, to land, maintain, and operate
the following cables at Guantanamo:
- 1.
- One cable or more, which this Government, by Decree No.
1201, dated July 20 of last year, authorized the said
company to lay between the city of Santiago de Cuba, or any
other place in the immediate neighborhood that might be
designated by the company, and Guantanamo Bay.
- 2.
- One cable or more, which the Goverment of Cuba, by Decree
No. 1202, bearing the same date as that above named,
authorized the said company to lay between Habana or
Cojimar, or any other place in the immediate neighborhood
selected by the company and Guantanamo Bay.
- 3.
- A cable from Guantanamo, which shall have its other
terminal in the island of Porto Rico, and may be connected
with Santo Domingo and Haiti, if the company so
elects.
Your Excellency also says that All America Cables Company,
Incorporated, likewise desires to maintain and operate the cables
also landed at Guantanamo, which connect the cities of New York and
Colon, and also to maintain and operate its relay station in
Guantanamo, and also to receive and forward all messages that may
arrive
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there over any of
the cables of the company, no matter where they may be; your
Excellency adds that the Government of the United States would be
grateful if the Cuban Government would consent to a modification, as
to the stations established at Guantanamo, in Article III of the
Convention concluded between Cuba and the United States of America
on July 2, 1903, which regulates the lease of the naval and coaling
stations made on February 16/23, 1903, so that All America Cables
Company, Incorporated, shall be permitted “to lay, land, maintain,
and operate the aforesaid cables at Guantanamo, to maintain and
operate its cables now landed at Guantanamo which connect with New
York City and Colon, to maintain and operate its relay station at
Guantanamo, and to forward all messages sent over its lines.”
In reply it affords me pleasure to inform Your Excellency that the
President of the Republic accepts the aforesaid proposal transmitted
by Your Excellency on behalf of the Government of the United States
in your Legation’s note No. 279 of March 31 last.
I avail myself [etc.]
