Mr. White to Mr. Hay.
Berlin, January 23, 1900.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you of the receipt to-day from the Imperial foreign office of a note in which reference is made to a request recently addressed by our consul at Kehl to the authorities of Alsace-Lorraine in regard to the whereabouts of one Oskar H. Schneider. It appears that a reward has been offered by our postal authorities for the apprehension of said Schneider and that it was thought possible that he might be found in the house of his brother-in-law, in Alsace. In the note it is stated that nothing has as yet been ascertained in regard to Schneider, and a further communication is promised in case he should be found subsequently. My attention is called to the fact, however, and it is on this account that I report the matter to you, that “extradition between Alsace-Lorraine and the United States is not regulated by treaty” (Auslieferung zwischen Elsass-Lothringen und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika nicht vertragsmässig geregelt ist).
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