File No. 419.11H23/25.

The Secretary of State to Chargé Wicker.

No. 145.]

Sir: The Department has received Mr. Dodge’s No. 458 of the 4th instant, reporting on the status of the case growing out of the treatment [Page 1244] accorded to William T. Harrington, an American citizen, while serving a sentence imposed upon him in April 1910.

In the event that an answer to Mr. Dodge’s last note shall not have been received by the Legation within a short time, you will address to the Foreign Office another and more urgent note.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
J. B. Moore.