The Argentine Chargé to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of your obliging communication of the 20th instant in which you were pleased to transmit to me the information received by your department since the 10th of August with regard to the mediation of the United States, Brazil, and the Argentine Republic in the dispute between Peru and Ecuador.

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Immediately upon reading its contents I communicated with my Government in accordance with the desire expressed in the said note, and I received to-day from the minister of foreign relations the telegram which I have the pleasure to bring to your knowledge. It reads as follows:

Instructions referred to in your telegram of August 22 have been duly issued.

(Signed) Carlos Rodriguez Larreta.

I take pleasure, etc.,

Jacinto L. Villegas.