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

Mr. Sherman to Mr. Uhl.

Department of State,
Washington, May 11, 1897.

No. 395.]

Sir: I have to inform you that your dispatch No. 324, of the 21st ultimo, reporting that Mr. Casimir Hartmann, a naturalized American citizen of German birth, had been discharged from enforced service in the German army, has been received.

Your communication has been read with satisfaction, especially in view of the fact that this case establishes our contention as to the applicability of the principles of our naturalization treaties to the territory of the Reichland-Alsace-Lorraine.

Respectfully, yours,

John Sherman.