Office of the Historian

438.00/197: Telegram

The High Commissioner in Haiti (Russell) to the Secretary of State

Port au Prince, December 14, 1922—noon.
[Received December 16—11:25 a.m.]

160. Department’s 125, December 13th, 6 p.m.10 President Borno has issued arrêté under date December 11th, organizing Claims Commission composed of Léger, Stanley, and Saavedra for the verification and liquidation of the floating debt and all pecuniary claims against Haiti. The third member Mr. Saavedra to be replaced by French, British and Italian delegates whose names appear in arrêté.11

Russell
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. René Delage, W. Briscoe, and Oscar Scarpa, respectively.↩