Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1871

No. 156.

[Telegram.]

Mr. Fish to Mr. Bancroft

Department of State, Washington, January 16, 1871.

Bancroft:

Washburne complains that his dispatches are detained two to three weeks between London and Paris. This is a poor return for his services in behalf of Germans, many hundreds of whom he is protecting and feeding in Paris. Endeavor to have this wrong remedied. We are entitled to prompt communication with our minister.

FISH.