Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix I, Chinese-Japanese War, Enforcement of Regulation Respective to Fur Seals, Mosquito Territory, Affairs at Bluefields, Claim of Antonio Maximo Mora, Import Duties on Certain Products of Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela, Affairs in the Samoan Islands

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.

Newport, R. I., June 22, 1893.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 19th instant, relative to the apprehended hostilities in Samoa between King Malietoa and the rebel chief Mataafa and the intended dispatch of United States vessels of war to Samoan waters for the purposes explained in your note, the substance of which I immediately communicated by telegraph to the Earl of Rosebery.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.