File No. 337.41.
The Secretary of State to the Chargé d’Affaires of Great Britain.
Washington, June 20, 1912.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th instant, in which you state that you have been directed by His Majesty’s Government to ask whether instructions could be sent to the American Naval authorities now in Cuba to give protection to British lives and property in cases where the Cuban Government appears unable to provide protection.
In reply I have the honor to say that I have communicated your note to the Secretary of the Navy with the request that, following the course pursued during the revolutionary disturbances in Cuba in [Page 267] 1906, such protection as may be available for the lives and property of American citizens in Cuba shall likewise be extended to British subjects.
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