File No. 825.001/7.

The Chilean Chargé to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]
No. 20.]

Sir: With the greatest sorrow I discharge the duty of announcing to your excellency that I have received a telegraphic communication [Page 135] from my Government apprising me of the death, which occurred yesterday at 2.15 p.m., of the Most Excellent Vice President of Chile Señor Don Elias Fernandez Albano, and that, under the provisions of our constitution, the Chief Magistracy has been assumed by the senior member of the cabinet, the Most Excellent Señor Emiliano Figueroa, minister of justice and public instruction.

A. Yoacham.