Office of the Historian

853.51/372: Telegram

The Chargé in Portugal (Benton) to the Secretary of State

Lisbon, August 9, 1926—noon.
[Received 7:12 p.m.]

43. Reference Department’s 23, August 4, 7 p.m. Following is translation of note from the Foreign Office dated August 1st and received August 8th.

“I have the honor to advise Your Excellency that, according to information received today from the General Director of the Public Treasury, instructions have been given to the bankers, Baring Brothers and Company of London, with a view to complying with the wishes of Your Excellency with regard to the bonds of the tobacco loans of 1891 and 1896.”

Reporting by mail.22

Benton

  1. Despatch No. 1587, Aug. 9, 1926, not printed.

    On Nov. 2. 1926, the Department informed the Minister in Portugal that it had been advised, under date of Oct. 25, 1926, by Kidder, Peabody & Co., of the procedure whereby American holders of the Portuguese Government tobacco monopoly bonds might secure payment, and that the Department now regarded the matter as closed (file No. 853.51/380).

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