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.

Department of State,
Washington, February 13, 1896.

No. 993.]

Sir: I have to inform you that your dispatch No. 590, of the 31st ultimo, stating that you had learned from the British foreign office that Mr. Knight, the United States vice-consul at Cape Town, had arrived at Pretoria, and that he is making arrangements there for the defense of American citizens, has been received.

You are correct in your inference that this Government is now in direct communication with its agents in the Transvaal.

I am, etc.,

Richard Olney.