File No. 419.11H23/25.
Minister Dodge to the Secretary of State.
Panama, June 4, 1913.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your instruction No. 139 of the 22nd ultimo, regarding [etc.], and to inform you that since addressing, on March 14 last, my note to Señor Lefevre. Minister for Foreign Affairs, I have brought this matter verbally to his attention on numerous occasions requesting that a reply to my note be expedited as much as possible. Señor Lefevre has always informed me that he was doing everything possible to this end and that I should receive a reply in a few days. As, however, no reply has yet been received, I have now addressed a second note to him formally requesting that the matter may be expedited as much as possible.
I have [etc.]