Mr. Uhl to Sir Julian Pauncefote.
Washington, February 28, 1894.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 21st instant, inclosing a copy of a dispatch of the 3d ultimo, addressed to Lord Rosebery by Her Majesty’s consul at Apia, in regard to the political situation in the Samoan Islands, in which he states that according to the most reliable information Tamasese has been proclaimed King and that war is almost inevitable.
The consular representative of the United States in a dispatch dated some three weeks later (January 29) reports a more pacific condition of affairs. He states that the threatening movement of Tamasese with which the year opened had collapsed, that Tamasese denied he had ever been chosen King, and that his rebellious adherents had surrendered for trial by the chief justice.
I have, etc.,
Acting Secretary.