Office of the Historian

Mr. White to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
Berlin, January 2, 1899.
No. 690.]

Sir: Referring to Mr. Jackson’s dispatch, No. 667, of the 19th ultimo, I have the honor to inform you that in No. 162 of the Berliner Correspondenz [Page 345] (officially published by the Prussian ministry of the interior) of the 31st ultimo the following notice appears:

Also in other ports besides Hamburg has the presence of San Jose scale been determined in shipments of fruit from America. The scale has been found in Stettin in dried California pears, moreover at Hamburg in a number of instances in dried pears and nectarines, as well as in fresh Newton Pippins and Ben Davis apples, the shipments being partially strongly infected. They were held up, and their reshipment abroad, under official control, has been ordered.

I am, etc.,

And. D. White.