File No. 862.413St4/34.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

No. 974.]

Sir: With reference to my cable of May 30 and to previous correspondence, I have the honor to inform you that I have received to-day a note from the imperial acting secretary of state for foreign affairs in which he informs me that His Majesty the Emperor has now decided definitely upon the square in front of the City Palace at Potsdam as the place where the statue shall be erected. The acting secretary of state then requests me to inform him in due season of the date of the arrival of the bronze replica in Germany and of its transportation to Potsdam.

I have, etc.,

David J. Hill.