File No. 817.51/700.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister of Nicaragua.

My Dear Mr. Minister: With reference to the Department’s note to you of October 14, 1914, in which reference was made to a cable addressed to you by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, requesting a loan of $50,000, I have the honor to inform you that a reply has been received from Brown Brothers & Company and Seligman & Company, in which they express their regret at not being able to comply with the request for this additional loan.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing
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