Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 422.11G93/563.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

No. 62.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 21, 1913.

Sir: The Department has received your No. 170 of the 16th ultimo, transmitting a note from the Minister for Foreign Affairs in regard to the proposed arbitration of the differences between the Government of Ecuador and the Guayaquil & Quito Railway Company, and reporting in regard to your interview with the Minister in which he stated that he had instructed the Ecuadorean Legation at Washington to request that the departure of Mr. Janes be delayed.

Before replying, the Department will wait to hear from Mr. Janes, as requested by him.

I am [etc.]

P. C. Knox.