File No. 422.11 G93/545a.]
The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.
Washington, November 14, 1912.
You will textually communicate the following to the Government of Ecuador, and express the hope that the arbitrator representing that Government will be named without delay:
In accordance with Article 27 of the contract of June 14, 1897, and in accordance with the formal request of the Government of Ecuador, the President of the United States, on November 11, 1912, designated Henry L. Janes, of the Diplomatic Service of the United States, as Arbitrator on the arbitral tribunal to be established for the settlement of the differences arising between the Government of Ecuador and the Guayaquil & Quito Railway Company since the date of the last arbitration in 1908.