The Acting Secretary of State to the Argentine Chargé.

My Dear Mr. Chargé d’Affaires: I take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your note of the 29th ultimo, in which you quote a dispatch which you received from the minister of foreign relations of your Government containing the gratifying statement that the minister of the Argentine Republic at Santiago, Chile, joined the representatives of the United States and Brazil in recommending to the Government of Chile that it use its influence with Ecuador in favor of the tripartite mediation and that the Chilean minister at Quito has been instructed to advise the Government of Ecuador to accept the protocol.

I am, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.