The Argentine Chargé to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

My Dear Mr. Secretary: Referring to my note of yesterday, it becomes my duty to transcribe herein below the telegraphic dispatch I have just received from the most excellent minister of foreign relations. It reads as follows:

In accordance with the contents of your telegram of this date, this ministry has sent instructions to the Argentine minister to Ecuador energetically to make the representations therein suggested.

It affords me pleasure to renew to you, etc.,

Jacinto L. Villegas.