File No. 14503/85.

Minister Sherrill to the Secretary of State.

No. 428.]

Sir: I have the honor to report, supplementing my No. 387 of the 25th ultimo,1 that I have to-day received from the minister for foreign affairs an acknowledgment of the congratulations, transmitted through this legation from the President and from yourself upon the occasion of the centenary anniversary of Argentine independence. A copy and translation of the minister’s note are inclosed herewith in duplicate.

I have, etc.,

C. H. Sherrill.
[Inclosure.—Translation.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs to Minister Sherrill.

Mr. Minister: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s communication of May 25, which requests me, in accordance with instructions received from your Government, to repeat the telegrams of congratulation received from His Excellency President Taft to His Excellency President Figueroa Alcorta upon the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution of May, and in which your excellency has been good enough to convey from his excellency the Secretary [Page 10] of State, Hon. Philander C. Knox, the congratulations and good wishes of your Government on our national anniversary.

Upon the receipt of such kind’ as well as spontaneous congratulations, I take upon myself the pleasant duty of repeating again the expression of profound gratification of the Argentine Government for the eloquent proofs of true friendship which it has received once again from the great Nation of which you are the distinguished representative.

I therefore request your excellency to be good enough to transmit to the Hon. Mr. Knox expressions of these sentiments and beg that your excellency will receive with my personal thanks the assurances of my most distinguished consideration and my special esteem.

V. de la Plaza.
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