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. Olney to Mr. Terrell.

Department of State,
Washington, November 27, 1895.

No. 685.]

Sir: In view of the sentence from your telegram of the 19th instant, asking, “If you can spare another, send a vessel to Smyrna, to go thence wherever needed,” which I quoted to the Secretary of the Navy on the 20th instant, I have now to apprise you of the receipt of Mr. Herbert’s reply of the 23d, observing that the U. S. S. Minneapolis should sail for Smyrna on the 27th instant, and that, allowing for delay of three days at Gibraltar for coal, this vessel should reach her destination on or about the 14th proximo.

I am, etc.,

Richard Olney.