Baron Fava to Mr. Foster.

[Translation.]

Mr. Secretary of State:

I have the honor to inform your excellency that as I was leaving from Chicago I received yesterday from his excellency the minister of foreign affairs of Italy the following telegram:

Rome, October 22, 1892.

To the Italian Minister,
Washington:

Yesterday at La Spezia the American flag was saluted with twenty-one guns.

Brin.

Accept, &c.,

Fava.