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. 2887/2–3.

Ambassador Francis to the Secretary of State.

[Extract.]

American Embassy,
Vienna, May 27, 1907.

No. 237.]

Sir: Supplementing my No. 135, dated December 31, 1906, relative to the impressment into the Austrian army of Peter Szatkowski, a naturalized citizen of the United States, I have the honor to inclose (with translation) copy of a note received to-day from the ministry of foreign affairs announcing that Mr. Szatkowski was released from service in December, and that steps had been taken for his full discharge from the Austrian army.

I am, etc.,

Charles S. Francis.

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

The Minister for Foreign Affairs to Ambassador Francis.

Imperial Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Vienna, May 26, 1907.

In continuation of his note of February 4, 1907 (No. 8457/7), concerning the case of the naturalized American citizen, Peter Szatkowski, the undersigned, on the basis of a communication that had been sent him by the imperial royal ministry for national defense, begs to inform his excellency, the ambassador of the United States of America, Mr. Charles S. Francis, that Peter Szatkowski, born at Krolik Polski, district Sanok, in the year 1879, and now an American citizen, was released on leave from service in the Imperial and Royal Infantry, Regiment No. 45, on December 6, 1906, and that steps have already been taken for his complete discharge from the army.

The above-named Szatkowski was conscripted through his own fault, because he gave the year of his birth as 1881 and was in consequence taken for his brother Andreas (who is now in America) and as such was conscripted. The steps for his discharge have been delayed until his identity could be proved.

The undersigned avails himself, etc.,

For the minister:

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