Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Runyon to Mr. Olney.

Embassy of the United States,
Berlin, August 30, 1895. (Received Sept. 13.)

No. 351.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this morning of the Department’s telegram of the 29th.

Similar information to that contained in this telegram had already been received from Mr. Stern, and had been communicated to the Bavarian legation informally, and; to a German press agency. On the receipt of the telegram, however, a memorandum was prepared, a copy of which is inclosed herewith, and left with the Bavarian chargé d’affaires, who promised to communicate it to his Government.

I have, etc.,

Theodore Runyon.

[Inclosure in No. 351.]

Memorandum left by Mr. Jackson with Baron von der Taun, Bavarian chargé d’affaires August 30, 1895.

The embassy of the United States is informed by its Government that Mr. Louis Stern, of New York, sailed on board the steamer Majestic, of, the White Star Line, with his wife, four children, two maids, governess, and tutor, on February 27 last, and that the person of the same name who sailed in the steamer Columbia from New York on May 9 for Hamburg was a Mr. Louis Stern, of New Orleans, in whose family was included a boy under 12 years of age.