File No. 718.1915/226.

The Secretary of State to the Minister of Costa Rica.

My dear Mr. Minister: The Department acknowledges, with thanks, the receipt of your note of November 25, 1914, with which you enclose a translation of the reply of your Government to the note from the Government of Panama setting forth the reasons which induced the latter not to accept the arbitral award of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Costa Rica-Panama boundary dispute.

Both your note and its enclosure have been read with great interest by the Department of State.

I am [etc.]

W. J. Bryan
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