Mr. Hay to Mr. Tower.

No. 280.]

Sir: The Department has received Mr. Dodge’s No. 521, of the 12th ultimo, relative to the case of Josef Henry Tetz, to whom this Department issued passport No. 9279 on June 24, 1904.

The application upon which the passport was issued showed that Tetz was a native citizen of the United States, and, as the passport was obtained by fraud, as appears from the information conveyed in Mr. Dodge’s dispatch, you are instructed to notify the proper authorities in Germany that Josef Henry Tetz is not a citizen of the United States, and that his passport has been withdrawn for the reasons set forth in this instruction.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.