File No. 573/125.

The British Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

No. 123.]

Sir: With reference to your note of May 25 and to my reply No. 121 of the following day on the subject of the treatment at the Magdalen Islands of the United States vessel Alert, I have the [Page 535] honor to inform you that I have this morning received a telegram from the acting governor of Canada stating that the matter is being inquired into. I shall not fail to apprise you of the results of these inquiries as soon as they are communicated to me.

I have, etc.,

James Bryce.