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

Mr. White to Mr. Sherman.

[Telegram.]

London, April 17, 1897.

Have obtained at this moment advanced copy of report. Forwarded by the dispatch bag leaving to-day by the Umbria.

Minister for foreign affairs not yet heard from, nor Russian Government, relative to proposed modus. I was informed at foreign office to-day that British ambassador had cabled you had assented to request of British Government for Thompson and assistants to visit islands this year.

White.