File No. 2956/12.

Minister Bryan to the Secretary of State.

No. 336.]

Sir: I have the honor to confirm my cable message of this date as follows, and to report that the minister for foreign affairs to-day corroborated what he told me at our last interview, stating that his colleague of the war office has fulfilled the promise to release Francisco Freitas from custody in Funchal.

I have, etc.,

Charles Page Bryan.