Ambassador Wright to the Secretary of State.

No. 112.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 101, of the 23d ultimo, I have the honor to inform you that I have to-day received from the imperial foreign office a memorandum, of which a copy is inclosed, stating that “consistently with the telegram from the United States, dated November 17, 1906, a paraphrase of which his excellency Mr. Wright was good enough to hand to the Yiscount Hayashi on the 22d instant, the Imperial Government have instructed the local authorities at Yokohama to recognize the Cuban consul-general recently appointed for that place.”

I have, etc.,

Luke E. Wright.
[Inclosure.]

memorandum.

The department of foreign affairs has the honor to announce to the embassy of the United States that consistently with the telegram from the honorable the Secretary of the United States dated November 17, 1906, a paraphrase of which his excellency Mr. Wright was good enough to hand to Viscount Hayashi on the 22d instant, the Imperial Government have instructed the local authorities at Yokohama to recognize the Cuban consul-general recently appointed for that place.