Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Olney to Mr. Bayard.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington , January 13, 1896 .

Cabled you yesterday respecting case of Hammond, American citizen, arrested and in danger at Johannesburg or Pretoria. Other American citizens, it seems, are also arrested and in peril. Please ask good offices of British representatives in South Africa for all of them.

Olney.