Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1884

No. 183.
Mr. Schuyler to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Legation of the United States,
Athens, December 8, 1883. (Received December 27.)

No. 52.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 42, dated October 19, on the subject of the prohibition of American pork in Greece, I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy and translation, marked 1 and 2, of a note I have just received from the minister of foreign affairs, which promises a new examination of the affair. The reference to information asked for at Berlin is probably called out by the fact that various statements have recently been published in the Greek newspapers about an outbreak of trichinosis in Germany.

I have, &c.,

EUGENE SCHUYLER.

[Inclosure in No. 52.—Translation.]

Mr. Contostavlo to Mr. Schuyler.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Athens, November 23 (December 5), 1883.

Mr. Minister: The department of the Interior, whose attention I hastened to draw to your note of October 5 (17), respecting the prohibition of the importation of American pork into Greece, has just informed me that before revising the dispositions already made on this subject on the advice of the medical council of Athens, it required new and fuller information, which it has desired me to ask of our consul-general at New York and of the King’s legation at Berlin.

I have just asked for this information, and I will not fail to duly communicate to you the decision which the ministry of the interior may think proper to make on the subject, as soon as this information has been received.

Please accept, &c.,

CONTOSTAVLO.