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. Dupuy de Lôme.

Department of State,
Washington, March 28, 1896.

No. 107.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have just received a telegram of which the following is a copy:

American schooner William Todd, en route Mobile here, fired on [by] Spanish gunboats off Isle Pines before flag hoisted. Afterwards searched; futile. Report mailed.

Eckford, Kingston.

I shall communicate with you further upon the receipt of the report referred to.

I give you this notice of telegram received, that you may cause such investigation to be set on foot as you may think proper.

I avail, etc.,

Richard Olney.