Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 419.11D29/146

The Secretary of State to the Minister of the Netherlands

Department of State,
Washington, November 1, 1916.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of October 20, transmitting your arbitral award fixing the amounts due from the Panaman Government to the American victims of the disorders in the city of Panama on July 4, 1912.

Thanking you for the information received, the substance of which has been conveyed to the interested persons,

I avail myself [etc.]

Robert Lansing