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The British Chargé ( Chilton ) to the Secretary of State
Sir: With reference; to your note of September 25th, concerning the reciprocal agreement by an exchange of notes between the United States Government and His Majesty’s Government for preventing interference by ships with wireless broadcasting, and to my note No. 823 of September 18th, in which I informed you that the Canadian Government desired to conclude with the United States Government a reciprocal agreement in terms similar to those proposed in my note No. 796 of September 8th, I have the honour, under instructions from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to inform you that the Government of Newfoundland also desire to conclude with the United States Government a similar agreement.
The Canadian Government and the Government of Newfoundland are anxious that these agreements should enter into force on October [Page 276] 1st next and I have the honour, therefore, to request that I may be informed at the earliest possible moment whether the United States Government are prepared to issue the orders necessary to give effect to these agreements by that date.
I have [etc.]