File No. 823.5048/144.

The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your personal note of the 10th instant, in which, with reference to previous correspondence, you recall to the Department’s attention the desire of your Government to learn the views of that of the United States touching the report of the American Consul at Iquitos on conditions in that part of Peru.

In reply, I beg to say that the Department will communicate further with you on this subject in the near future.

I am [etc.]

John E. Osborne.