Mr. White to Mr. Sherman.
Berlin, March 17, 1898.
Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 327 of the 11th instant, I have the honor to inform you that although no reply to my note, a copy of which was therein inclosed, has as yet been received from the foreign office, I am to-day in receipt of a letter from our consul at Dusseldorf, from which I quote as follows:
The fruit waste stopped at Herzogenrath was promptly released after your representations at the foreign office in Berlin. The order for the release of the goods came by telegraph. No further difficulty is anticipated by the fruit importers at the frontier custom-houses of the Rhine Province. The importers of American fruit in Dusseldorf have requested me to extend their thanks for your prompt and effective action in their behalf. They fully appreciate the force of the United States embassy at the German capital.
I am, etc.,