711.428/531

The Secretary of State to the British Chargé (Lindsay)

Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your note of July 25, 1919, enclosing copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council for Canada, approving, subject to certain modifications, a report of the American-Canadian Fisheries Conference, dated September 6, 1918.

You state that the Canadian Government desires to learn the views of my Government in regard to the points covered by the Minute and I shall be glad to reply to this request as soon as I shall have had an opportunity to consult with the appropriate officers of this Government, to whom I have referred the Minute enclosed in your note.

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
William Phillips