Legation of
the United States,
Berlin, February 8, 1886.
(Received February 24.)
No. 191.]
[Inclosure in No.
191.—Translation.]
Count Bismarck to
Mr. Pendleton.
Foreign
Office, Berlin, February 3,
1886.
The undersigned has the honor to return the inclosures of the esteemed
notes of the 21st and 26th of December last and to inform the envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of
America, Mr. George H. Pendleton, that the requests for the
discontinuance of the measures of expulsion taken against Earl Simon
Petersen of Friebluma, Christian Nielsen Hansen of Harknag, and Lars
Hoeck of Markernpheide, at the time sojourning in their native land,
have been made the subject of careful examination.
The result of the investigations leaves no room for doubt that the same
views apply to Petersen and Hansen which were stated with respect to the
expulsion of S. M. Boyson and associates, under Nos. 2 to 6, in the note
of the undersigned of December 21st; last. Both received, a short time
before attaining the age of military liability, upon their request, a
discharge from Prussian allegiance, and the assumption appears to be
justified that in seeking this discharge they were actuated solely by
the purpose of withdrawing themselves from the performance of the
general military duty in Prussia.
As regards Lars Hoeck, the views and conclusions are pertinent which are
contained in the above-mentioned foreign office note respecting the
persons designated therein under Nos. 7 to 9. Hoeck in 1876 presented
himself before the Prussian recruiting authorities, but escaped then to
America without having been discharged from Prussian allegiance.
A sojourn of several months in their native land, sufficient for a visit
to their relations and for the settlement of such business matters as
may have claimed their attention, having been allowed them, the decree
of expulsion issued against them will now have to be carried into
execution.
I am, etc.,
