File No. 825.6374/355
The Chilean Chargé ( Munizaga Varela) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 29.]
Sir: Referring to note No. 81 of July 27, last, from the Department of State relative to the favorable settlement of the difficulties [Page 718] arising from the embargo placed upon certain petroleum stored in Iquique and Tocopilla,1 I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I transmitted its contents to my Government and have received in reply the following telegram from the Minister of Foreign Relations:
There has been no judgment whatever against the Union Oil Co., nor any embargo of that company’s petroleum, but only against the International Petroleum Co., whose agents here are Williamson & Co. [sic], and whose petroleum in the tanks at Iquique and Tocopilla was embargoed. The embargo declared against Williamson & Co. in the action brought by Gildemeister, has been finally raised by a judicial decree, and the Government has guaranteed that there shall not be any embargo again declared.
I avail myself [etc.]