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Franoe "l':illvl Down" by Inde Hutu. Washington: Ttare istrood authority for the statement that a peremptory (Iemand will be made by the I Dited States upon trance for the release of Consul John aller, of Tamatave. Alaciabas -ar. and tlnit satisfactory indemnity will be required for hia arrest and iinprisonment. with a probable reqnest for a comtnission to determiné Waller's rights in .Madagascar. The iliscnssion of the case between the French and Araerioan diploinats has reaehed a point where it is said thai there is little else for the United States to do, owinp to the fact that repeated requests for a copj' ,of the charges and testimony on which Waller was convicted have not been furnished by the French governim-nt. More than this U. S. Ambassador Kustis has been refused permission to visit Waller in prison. LATEB. - Aeting Seeretary of State Adee has received informa tion that permission has been aecorded Mr. Eustis to interview Mr. Waller. The French authorities are evidently beBomlog alive to the fact that no inore delay will be allowed and have made promises to produce the papers bearing- upou the Waller case as sun as possible. Paris: The Temps publishes a letter from Tamatave. which savs that the French are incensed at the commander of tlie American cruiser Castine for refusinr to salute the gfarrison and to accord other customary courtesies on the grouad that America has not recoffni.ed the Frenoh protectorate. The Americans have also caused irritation by persistiría in a personal invesligation of the Waller case.