Letter

Francis to Baron Pasetti, April 18, 1885

[Inclosure 11 in No. 28.]

Mr. Francis to Baron Pasetti.

Your Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note, No. 9005–7, of the date of April 15, 1885, together with an inclosure embracing evidence relative to the case of Harry Rice, arrested at Lippa, in Hungary, in February last, charged with owing military service to the Imperial Royal Government.

In response to the request contained in the note of your excellency I shall, upon receipt of information from my Government, hasten to communicate to the imperial royal ministry “the results of the events” regarding this affair as instruction may be given me thereon.

I avail, &c.,

JOHN M. FRANCIS.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.