File No. 882.51/217.

The German Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Mr. Secretary of State: In reply to your note of the 29th instant, serial No. 470, I have the honor respectfully to say that I am authorized by the Imperial Government to accept the amendments to the loan agreement with Liberia as proposed in the aforesaid note.

Accept, etc.,

J. Bernstorff.