The Secretary of State to the Danish Legation.

No. 694.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 27th ultimo by which you inform me that in pursuance of the understanding reached by the correspondence which passed between the Danish Legation and the Department of State on March 19 and 25, 1907, the necessary instructions have been sent to the Danish consul at Shanghai (the consular headquarters for the whole of China) in order to authorize him to protect American trade-marks, duly deposited in Denmark, against violations by Danish subjects in China, to the same extent as Danish marks of the nature are protected.

As a completion of the exchange of notes to give the said understanding effect, I have the honor to inform you that, on the part of the United States, the minister of the United States at Peking has this day been instructed to inform the consular officers of the United States in China that hereafter trade-marks of Danish subjects, which have been duly registered in the United States, are to be protected against infringement by such persons as come under the jurisdiction of the United States consular courts in China.

Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration.

Elihu Root.