File No. 705.6352/–
The Spanish Ambassador ( Riaño) to the Secretary of State
[Translation]
Washington,
May 26, 1917.
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform your excellency that I have just received a telegram from the Minister of State by which he instructs me to notify your excellency that at the request of the Austro-Hungarian Government the Consul of Spain at Honolulu, where Sweden has no representative, has been instructed to take charge of the protection of Austro-Hungarian interests in that island.
I avail myself [etc.]
Juan Riaño