Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Señor Infante to Mr. Day.

[Translation.]

Chilean Legation,
Cape May, N. J., July 19, 1898.

Mr. Secretary: I have had the honor to receive the note in which your excellency indicates the advisability of duly observing the customary naval rules in case of blockade each time that a neutral vessel of war may desire to enter or to leave a port blockaded by the American naval forces. Your excellency suggests certain particular observances relative to the port of Habana.

For the due observance of these rules I have hastened to communicate to my Government your excellency’s above-mentioned note.

I avail myself of this occasion to renew to your excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.

E. Infante.