I take pleasure in informing you that I have been advised from
my home Government to the effect that the condition of the
famine stricken people in the Northern Provinces of Japan,
towards the relief of whom generous contributions from foreign
sympathizers have been received, has now improved to such a
favorable extent as to allow them to announce that, with the
harvest of the coming summer crop, there will be no more need
of receiving outside contributions.
Yours sincerely,