723.2515/365
The Acting Secretary of State to the Peruvian Minister (Freyre)
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of December 10,38 transmitting the telegram of December 9, in which the President of Peru replies to the statement of the President of the United States regarding the difference between Peru and Chile, which was conveyed to the President of Peru by the American Minister in Lima.
In reply it affords me pleasure to inform you that President Pardo’s message was telegraphed to the President on December 11.
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In order to remove the possibility of a misapprehension I desire to point out that the statement made by the American Minister in Lima on behalf of the President to President Pardo did not include an offer of mediation, but was only the offer of the President to use his good offices in the solution of the difficulties existing between Peru and Chile.
Accept [etc.]
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