Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE NORTH GERMAN LEGATION AT WASHINGTON.

No. 170.

Baron Gerolt to Mr. Fish.

By order of the King, the North German government begs the United States Government to allow that the United States legation at Paris may protect Germans in France during the war.

[The above was handed to me personally, by Baron Gerolt, at my residence, Monday, July 18, about 6½ p. m.

H. F.]