711.42157 Detroit/84

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Canada ( Robbins )

No. 362

Sir: Reference is made to your despatch No. 543 dated April 21, 1934, file number 715.5, transmitting a copy of a note dated April 20, 1934, from the Canadian Department of External Affairs, relative to the dredging of certain shoal areas of the St. Clair River by the United States.

There is enclosed a copy of a letter dated May 29, 1934, from the Secretary of War,97 indicating that he still regards the third condition desired by the Canadian Government as inadmissible, for the reasons given in his letter of March 9, transmitted to you under cover of instruction No. 257 dated March 13, 1934. Mr. Dern, however, perceives no objection to acceding to the present suggestion, that the removal of dredged material from the areas in the St. Clair River where deposited after dredging operations be governed by the general understanding which was embodied in the exchange of correspondence in 1926 and 1927.

You are requested to inform the appropriate Canadian authorities in this regard.

Very truly yours,

William Phillips
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