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

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Muruaga.

Department of State,
Washington , April 3, 1895 .

No. 13.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 20th ultimo, addressed to Mr. Uhl as Acting Secretary, communicating copy of a telegram from the Governor-General of Cuba in regard to an alleged statement of “sailors” touching an entry in the log book of the Conde Venadito, relative to firing upon a vessel said to have shown the British flag off Cape Maysi on the 8th instant, which vessel the Governor-General supposes to have been the Alliança.

Accept, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.