File No. 741.8215/43.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador to Great Britain.

No. 1687.]

Sir: The Department has received your dispatch No. 1952, of March 30, 1912,1 in which you transmit copies of correspondence exchanged by your Embassy with the Foreign Office concerning the disturbances that have taken place during the last few months on the Anglo-Liberian frontier, and thanks you for the action taken by your Embassy in the matter.

It appears from Minister Cram’s telegram, the substance of which was cabled to you on the first instant, that the Liberian Government has made earnest efforts to correct the unfortunate state of affairs existing on the Sierra Leone border. The American military attaché and the three American ex-Army officers are now on their way to Monrovia for the purpose of reorganizing the Liberian constabulary and the Department feels sure that when this is accomplished conditions on Liberia’s frontiers will show a marked improvement.

I am [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.
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