Mr. Herdliska to Mr. Hay.
Vienna, October 24, 1900.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that on yesterday morning, the 23d instant, I received your open cablegram of the 22d instant, reading as follows:1
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At my audience with Count Szecsen—in the absence of Count Goluchowski, in charge of the foreign office—last evening, I read your telegram to him, handing him at the same time a copy.
In expressing the thanks of the foreign office for the communication, which, he assured me, would be received with unusual interest and satisfaction by the Imperial and Royal Government, Count Szecsen informed me that he had that very day sent a telegram to Berlin expressing to the German Government, through the Austro-Hungarian embassy in Berlin, Austria-Hungary’s unreserved approval of and adhesion to the principles recorded in the German-English agreement; and as the American proposition, as expressed in the cable presented, was entirely in line with the German-English agreement, Austria-Hungary in accepting that agreement as a matter of course also approved of the American proposition.
I have the honor to be, etc.,
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