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. Knight to Mr. Uhl.

Consulate of the United States,
Cape Town, January 21, 1896. (Received Feb. 21.)

No. 120.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your cables of the 18th instant, and also confirm my cable of same date.

As instructed, I am proceeding to-night to Pretoria, the seat of the Government of the South African Republic, and where the prisoners are now incarcerated, with Mr. J. Bryant Lindley, admitted in 1887 to practice in the State of New York, as from the local papers I understand that all the leading counsel have been retained by the Government of the Republic, and immediately on my return I shall report fully to the Department upon this matter, and if necessary by cable.

I have, etc.,

C. H. Knight.