File No. 363.117R271/2.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

No. 528.]

Sir: In reply to the Department’s No. 305 of July 16, 1913, instructing this Embassy to ask for the immediate return of the naturalization certificate and a bond taken from Julius Reich at the time of his arrest on June 2nd for alleged evasion of military service, I have the honor to report that the Embassy is in receipt of a notice from the Foreign Office stating that the certificate of naturalization and the bond of 200 crowns were returned to Julius Reich on July 16th of the present year.

I have [etc.]

U. Grant-Smith.