Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Baron von Thielmann to Mr. Sherman.

[Translation.]

Washington, D. C., March 10, 1897.

Sir: In reply to your excellency’s note of to-day’s date, No. 301, I beg to say that I shall thank you for kindly instructing, by telegraph, the United States consul at St. Pierre, Martinique, to extend his protection and render assistance to Captain Aim, master of the German bark Elisabeth Ahrens.

I avail myself, etc.,

Thielmann.