Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 882.51/361.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister.

No. 27.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 15, 1912.

Sir: Referring to Mr. Reed Paige Clark’s cable from London of April 5 and the Department’s telegraphic reply of April 8, 1912, upon the subject of the designation of the three Receivers to the different customs posts in Liberia, I transmit herewith for the confidential information of your Legation and Mr. Clark, duplicate copies of the correspondence on this subject recently exchanged by the Department with the German and French Ambassadors at this capital.²

I am [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.

2. All the inclosures with this instruction are printed, ante, in their chronological order; they are: The note from the French Ambassador, March 30; the memorandum from the German Ambassador, April 22; the Department’s reply to the French Ambassador, May 15; the Department’s reply to the German Ambassador, May 15.