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American Consular Service
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 29, 1926.

Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt,
Care American Consul,
Valparaiso, Chile.

Sir:

I have for acknowledgment your letter of the 18th instant regarding steamship sailings from this port to the Falkland Islands from December 15th to January 30, 1926.

I have been informed that formerly there was a regular service between Punta Arenas and the Islands but that this service has been discontinued. With reference to passage on an Argentine Government lighthouse tender or other Government boat, as far as I have been able to ascertain, there will be no sailings within the period mentioned above. 

According to the best information available there are only two available boats within the period mentioned, namely:

1. SS. "ORDUÑA", belonging to the Royal Mail Steamship Line, sails from Montevideo, Uruguay, January 30, 1927, does not call at Buenos Aires, fare about pounds 20, a 7 or 8 day trip, a passenger liner.

2. ss. "LAGARTO", freighter belonging to Royal Mail Steamship Line, due in Montevideo about December 9, 1926, from Montevideo proceeds to Bahia Blanca, Argentina, has accomodations for limited number of passengers, can be taken in Montevideo about December 10th, or in Bahia Blanca about December 15th,