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., August 15, 1893.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 9th instant, relative to the surrender of Mataafa and his chiefs, and inquiring what action on the part of the three treaty powers is demanded by the present situation at Samoa, and what disposition in the opinion of Her Majesty’s Government should be made of Mataafa.

I have communicated to my Government by telegraph the substance of your note, copy of which I am sending by today’s mail.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.