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HIDDEN BASSY, NOV 12 1907)

WASHINGTON,

October 30, 1907. 4U7

In compliance with the instructions contained in your

despatch No.140 of the 11th July I addressed a note to the

United States Government pointing out that 0. Young the

owner of the junk sunk by the American naval collier

"ALEXANDER" had been by the notion of the officers of that

vessel deprived of redress except by diplomatic representa,

tions and expressing the hope that after due enquiry some

compensation might be awarded.

In the reply, copy of which is herewith enclosed,

the State Department base their refusal of compensation

on the ground that there is not sufficient evidence that

the American vessel was in ault to justify an application

to Congress for an appropriation. As the dossier of the

case forwarded to the Embassy and by them submitted to the

State Department does not, in fact, contain any direct

evidence that the "ALEXANDER was to blame to offset the

The Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart.,

etc.,

etc.,

atc..

finding