Office of the Historian

File No. 8258.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Beaupré.

Department of State,
Washington, August 31, 1907.
No. 133.]

Sir: I inclose herewith copy of a letter from the Navy Department giving the itinerary of a fleet of battle ships and a torpedo flotilla which will sail in December from the North Atlantic to the Pacific coast of the United States.

You are requested to bring to the notice of the foreign office such portions of this communication as pertain to Argentine territory.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.

(Same, mutatis mutandis, to Brazil, No. 25; Chile, No. 72; Great Britain, No. 510; Mexico, No. 302; Panama, No. 55; Peru, No. 19.)

[Inclosure.]

The Acting Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of State.

Navy Department,
Washington, August 28, 1907.

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that by direction of the President 16 battle ships of the Atlantic Fleet will leave the United States in the early part of December, bound for San Francisco. They expect to coal from colliers at the island of Trinidad, on or about December 22; Rio de Janeiro, on or about January 10, 1908; Punta Arenas, on or about January 31, 1908; Callao, Peru, on or about February 16, 1908; and Magdalena Bay, on or about March 8.

It is expected that liberty will be granted in Rio de Janeiro and Callao, concerning which the commander in chief, Admiral Evans, will confer with the port authorities upon his arrival.

The torpedo flotilla, consisting of the auxiliary Arethusa and six destroyers, will probably touch at Culebra, Trinidad, Para, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Punta Arenas, Talcahuana, Callao, Panama, Acapulco, Magdalena, and San Francisco, but the dates upon which they will arrive can not be fixed, owing to the fact that they are subject to the conditions of the weather which may from time to time prevail.

I have, etc.,

Truman H. Newberry.