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

Mr. Foster to Mr. von Holleben.

Department of State,
Washington, December 24, 1892.

Sir: Replying to your esteemed note of the 13th instant, in which you state that the British Government has sent one of its war vessels to cooperate in the protection of life and property in Samoa, and that the German cruiser Buzzard is already at Apia, I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance with my note of November 3 to Baron Ketteler, the United States steamship Alliance sailed for Samoa from Honolulu November 26. I am still awaiting, but hope to receive soon the report from the American consul at Apia to which I adverted in that note.

Accept, etc.,

John W. Foster.