No. 238.
Mr. Atkinson to Mr. Fish.
St. Petersburg, July 26, 1876. (Received August 14.)
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that a convention has just been concluded at Warsaw, between Russia and Germany, for the construction of a railway to unite Warsaw with Marienburg. The right of laying down and working the line has been granted by their respective governments to a Russian and a German company, who are to act in concert with regard to uniformity in regulating the traffic, subject, however, to the usual governmental supervision in each country. The point at which it will intersect the frontier will be near Mlava or Mlavka on the Russian side, whence it will run northwest to Marienburg. This line would seem to promise some commercial importance, as it will bring the port of Danzig and that part of the German coast into more direct communication with the Russian Empire.
I have, &c.,