Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 422.11G93/898

Minister Hartman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams]

American Legation,
Quito, January 12, 1917, 11 a.m.

My telegram of January 4, 5 p.m. No answer having been received to my inquiry I called upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs this morning who said that delay was due to investigation of Minister of Hacienda and that answer would be delivered this afternoon. When received I will report at once.

Hartman