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. Knight.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 18, 1896.

Mrs. Hammond’s cable of this date received. You are instructed to make urgent representations to the Transvaal Government in the line of Mrs. Hammond’s telegram and to say that the Government of the United States earnestly desires Hammond’s trial may be postponed until it can be had with safety to his health.

Olney.