Mr. Meyer to Mr. Hay.

No. 225.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on January 11, of your cable dispatch dated January 10.

I immediately communicated the contents of this cablegram to the minister for foreign affairs and on the same day was informed by him that he was consulting the Governments of Germany and Great Britain before replying. A copy of the minister’s note with translation is inclosed herein.

I am, etc.,

G. V. L. Meyer.
[Inclosure.—Translation.]

Mr. Prinetti to Mr. Meyer.

Mr. Ambassador: In the letter which your excellency addressed to me to-day you did me the honor of informing me, as per telegram from your Government, dated yesterday, that Mr. Bowen will leave Cape St. Lucas to-morrow for Washington and that Mr. Bowen has intimated that the blockade is causing great scarcity of provisions and threatening general distress. Your excellencv mentions this to me with the hope that the propriety of raising the blockade at the earliest possible moment may be considered.

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In reply to this communication I hasten to inform you, Mr. Ambassador, that concerning the matter to which it refers I immediately placed myself in communication with the Governments of Germany and England with the object of coordinating my reply with that which those Governments are about to make to the analogous communication which doubtless they too have received.

Pray accept, etc.,

Prinetti.