File No. 4062/11–12.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Francis.

Sir: The department has received your No. 225 of the 8th of May last, relative to the expulsion case of Mr. Selig Fink, and awaits the reply of the foreign office to your note of May 7 last on this case and on the general question involved of former Austrian or Hungarian subjects returning as American citizens to the country of their origin.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.