Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Thompson to Mr. Gresham.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Rio de Janeiro, January 29, 1894. (Received January 29.)

Mr. Thompson reports that at an interview in which interference with the coal trade of British subjects was discussed, the representative of Great Britain, whose views are shared by his Belgian, French, Italian, and Portuguese colleagues, declared that all other means would be exhausted before force would be resorted to and intimated that recognition might be recommended by him.