File No. 6807.
The Secretary of State to
Ambassador Tower.
Department of State,
Washington, June 14,
1907.
No. 663.]
Sir: I inclose herewith a copy of a letter
dated May 29, 1907, from Mr. George Stoetzel, in which he states that
his son, Carlos Stoetzel, who came to the United States when he was 4
years of age, with his father, from Mulhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, is now
resident at Bale (Basel), Switzerland, where he is learning the trade of
a cook, and that he has been summoned to appear for military duty in
Germany.
You are instructed to present the case of Mr. Carlos Stoetzel to the
German Government, and to request that he be recognized as a citizen of
the United States and relieved from military obligations to the German
Government.
I inclose in proof of the naturalization of Mr. Carlos Stoetzel’s father,
before he was 21 years of age, a certificate of naturalization issued in
his father’s favor October 1, 1901, by the district court of the United
States of the southern district of New York, at New York City. This
certificate may be returned to the department when it has served its
present purpose.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
Mr. Stoetzel to
the Secretary of State.
Dear Sir: I, the undersigned, George
Stoetzel, a citizen of the United States, wish your advice as to the
mode of procedure I must take in the following case, viz:
I landed in this country from Mulhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, in 1891. I
have a son, Carlos Stoetzel, who landed here when he was 4 years old
and graduated from public school in this city. Some two years ago I
sent him to Bale, Switzerland, to finish learning his trade, viz,
pastry cook and confections. During his sojourn there it has been
his practice to visit mine and his relatives in Mulhausen,
necessitating him crossing the border. He now informs me that he has
been summoned to appear before the military authorities of Germany
to show cause why he should not eventually join the army, in
accordance with the conscript law of that country. Now, to make him
a practical member of his trade he should at least serve another
year, which will make him 19 years of age.
If you will advise me or use your good offices in the matter you will
confer a favor upon,
Yours, very respectfully,
George
Stoetzel,
No. 222 East
Fifty-first Street.
