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File No. 4557/23–25.

Ambassador Riddle to the Secretary of State.

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg, June 3, 1907.
No. 45.]

Sir: In compliance with the department’s cable received June 2,a I have this day drawn upon you for $1,000, the proceeds of which, namely, rubles 1,940, I have paid over to the Russian Red Cross Society, and have the honor to inclose herewith the receipt of the Red Cross, with translation, together with a memorandum of the banker showing the rate at which the above-named draft of $1,000 was purchased.

I have, etc.,

J. W. Riddle.
[Inclosure.—Translation.]

Receipt of the chief direction of the Russian Red Gross Society.

No. 83890.]

Rubles 1,940.

On May 21 (June 3), 1907, was received by the treasury of this administration and credited under article No. 4199, from the American Red Cross Society for the relief of famine sufferers, the sum of 1,940 rubles.

  • W. Tonko, Treasurer.
  • I. Koshennikoff, Comptroller.
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