Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Count de Lichtervelde to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of Belgium,
Washington, February 18, 1898.

Mr. Secretary of State: I have to-day received a telegram charging me to express to your excellency the very sorrowful emotion and the grievous sympathy of the King and of Belgium in connection with the catastrophe to the Maine.

Be pleased, etc.,

Lichtervelde.