No. 263.
Mr. De Long to Mr. Fish.
June 21, 1873. (Received July 22.)
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have just received a note from Senor Aurilio Garcia y Garcia, the Peruvian envoy, which reads as follows:
Legation del Peru,
Yedo,
June 20, 1873.
My Dear Friend: After a very long discussion with the minister for foreign affairs, Mr. Woogem, which I asked for in view of his answer to my dispatch on the Maria [Page 617] Luz case, we agreed yesterday and have signed a protocol referring that case to the arbitration of the chief of a friendly state. The difference between Peru and Japan has thus ended.
The only thing to be done now is to select the arbitrator and submit the case to him.
Convinced that this news will be gratifying to you,
I am, yours very sincerely,
A. G. y GARCIA.
His Excellency C. E. De Long, &c.
I am, &c.,