Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 312.115/149.

The Secretary of State to Consul Hostetter.

No. 329.

Department of State,
Washington, March 24, 1915.

Sir: The Department encloses a copy of a communication⁸³ from Mr. W. J. Phillips, American Consular Agent at Guaymas, saying [etc.]

You are instructed to furnish the Department with available information concerning the matters referred to in the letter, including, if possible, definite information regarding the precise character of the treaty provisions, if any such existed, through which the German Government obtained refunds for its nationals of the amounts contributed by them to the loan in question.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Wilbur J. Carr.

83. Mr. Phillips’ despatch of February 25; see ante.