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

Mr. Cambon to Mr. Day.

[Translation.]

Embassy of the French Republic,
Washington, August 29, 1898.

The French embassy has been requested to inform the Federal Government that the families of the officers of the garrison of the archipelago of the Ladrones are in a state of entire destitution.

The Spanish Government is confident that as soon as the attention of the Department of State has been called to this painful situation the United States will act in accordance with the feelings of humanity and the responsibility which it has assumed in sending those officers to Manila, and will take the necessary steps to have their families sent to Cavite.