Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Rockhill to Mr. Lee.

Department of State,
Washington, October 8, 1896.

Sir: The Department has received your dispatch No. 160, of the 3d instant, with inclosure, relative to the fate of Charles Govin, and in reply you are informed that your action in demanding of the Governor and Captain General of Cuba the name of the subordinate general who made the report of the death of Mr. Govin and the name of the place at which it was written is approved by the Department.

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I am, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill.