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Mr. Lord to Mr. Hay .

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]
Legation of the United States,
Buenos Ayres , December 23, 1901 .

(Mr. Lord reports that under the new military law recently enacted the minister of war is unable to grant the exemption of operators as suggested in Department’s telegram of 21st instant. On account of abuses, the clause under which such exemptions were formerly authorized was omitted from the present law.)