File No. 3294/14–15.

The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Vignaud.

No. 272.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of the ambassador’s No. 234 of the 31st of January last, transmitting copy of his note of January 23 to the minister for foreign affairs regarding the arrest and imprisonment case of Frederick Lodge Jacobs.

The department approves Mr. McCormick’s note and awaits with interest the embassy’s further report.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.