Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/154

The Secretary of State to the Kirby Lumber Company

Department of State,
Washington, September 1, 1914.

Sirs: Referring to this Department’s telegram to you of August 7, 1914, regarding the refusal of code messages for Porto Rico, the Department is informed by the Western Union cable system that arrangements have been made whereby all code and other messages for Porto Rico are now accepted at all of the company’s offices without restriction.1

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Robert Lansing

Counselor
  1. On August 14 the Kirby Lumber Company wrote that, while arrangements had already been made with the American companies for sending code messages, the French company continued to refuse them (File No. 763.72/459).↩