File No. 851.731/19
The Ambassador in France (Sharp) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 13.]
Sir: Referring to the Department’s cipher telegraphic instruction No. 369 of December 11, 8 p. m.,3 relative to the complaints of the [Page 714] non-delivery of telegrams from the United States regarding the purchase and sale of cotton, and recommending that permission be granted for the use of Meyer’s or Shepperson’s cotton codes, I have the honor to report, in further reference to my telegram No. 464 of January 161 advising the Department of State that permission had been given for the use of Meyer’s code, that the Foreign Office has just advised me that it is considered by the French competent authorities that the addition of Shepperson’s code to those already used would only tend to complicate the telegraphic correspondence, and that it is therefore considered that the Meyer’s code—which is more complete than Shepperson’s—should be sufficient for the necessities of cotton merchants.
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