810.79611 Pan American Airways, Inc./477: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:45 p.m.]
91. Chilean Post Office Department has accepted offer of Peruvian Post Office Department to carry Chilean air mail, ordinary and registered, to the United States and intermediate points departing from [Page 563] Mollendo every Friday. Chilean Post Office has announced mail can now be sent from Chile by regular steamers to Mollendo for dispatch by air mail onward to the United States for eleven pesos 25 centavos per 20 grammes plus usual postage or by Chilean air mail to Arica, thence to Mollendo by the steamer and from Mollendo by air mail to the United States for eleven pesos 25 centavos plus a surcharge of one peso 20 centavos per 20 grammes plus 25 centavos regular postage. Air mail postage rates quoted to intermediate countries are in proportion. I am informed by Chilean Post Office Department that this agreement should not prevent subsequent arrangements with Chilean Post Office Department to deliver through mails to Pan American-Grace Airways at Santiago and other Chilean points for Canal and United States at rates per pound suggested in recent telegram from Postmaster General as soon as War Department grants permission to company to operate mail service. Foreign Office informed me yesterday that War Department will grant this permission in a few days and accept international mails at Arica, Santiago and at one intermediate point not yet determined and that a landing charge will be imposed.