The Consul General of Paraguay to the Secretary of State.
November 22, 1915.
Sir: Replying to the note of your excellency of the sixteenth instant addressed to his excellency, Dr. Héctor Velazquez, Minister of Paraguay, suggesting an extension until January fifteenth, 1916, for the completion of the International Commission provided by the [Page 1278] Treaty of August twenty-ninth, 1914, I beg to advise that, in the absence of Dr. Velázquez, I communicated with the Government at Asunción by cable as follows: “Lansing suggests exchange notes extension time to January fifteen next appointment Peace Treaty Commissioners,” to which I am in receipt to-day of a cable message reading as follows: “Suggestion accepted you are authorized exchange notes. Gondra.”
I therefore, by virtue of this authority, accept formally on the part of the Government of Paraguay your excellency’s suggestion for an extension until the date mentioned, and beg to give assurance that your excellency’s note will be regarded as giving full effect to such extension.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Very respectfully,