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

Mr. Strobel to Mr. Thompson.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 28, 1893.

Mr. Strobel, Acting Secretary, directs Mr. Thompson, at the request of the Navy Department, to furnish the commanding officer of the U. S. S. Charleston with a copy of order to the effect that further destruction and bloodshed should be prevented by the exertion of all the moral force of the Government of the United States, by protest and otherwise, and that the protection of American persons and property should be made the object of every possible effort.