Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 6685/–2.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Tower .

Department of State,
Washington , May 28, 1907 .

No. 649.]

Sir: I inclose a copy of a letter^a from Senator Knox covering one from Mr. Edwin W. Smith, of Pittsburg, Pa., concerning the military case of Mr. George Ahl, an American citizen. It appears that Mr. Ahl has been studying music in Berlin since 1905, but that he has been notified by the authorities that he must leave Germany before the 1st of July next.

In view of the hardship that would seem to be involved in the enforced discontinuance of this young man’s musical education, you will endeavor to have Mr. Ahl’s stay permitted long enough to complete his musical studies.

I am, etc.,

E. Root.

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