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 LOAD-LINE CERTIFICATES-JAPAN. The Japanese Afinister jor Foreign Affairs (Shidehara) to the American Ambassador (Forbes) No. 97/CI [Trun,;!,> r ion] DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TOKYO, September 7, 1931. 2681 Recognition bJ EXCELLENCY: Japan. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your notes of March 30 and August 25, 1931, regarding mutual recognition between Japan and the United States of load-line certificates. Besides recognizing the load-line certificates issued by the Ameri- can Bureau of Shipping to American ships, the Imperial Govern- ment has no objection to recognizing the load-line certificates issued to American ships by the American committee of Lloyds' Registry of Shipping and the American representative of the Bureau Veritas in so far only as they are issu.ed under authority granted by Your Excellency'S Government. For purposes of reference it is desired to have at hand forms of the certificates issued by the American committee of Lloyds' Registry of Shipping and by the American representatives of the Bureau Veritas, and I have therefore the honor to request that copies be transmitted to me as soon as possible. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my high consideration. BARON KIJURO SHIDEHARA THE HONORABLE Minister jor Foreign Affairs (SEAL) ·W. CAMERON FORBES, American Ambassador, etc. [No. 25]