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

Mr. Rockhill to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Belgrade, May 5, 1898.

No. 56, Greek series.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a note from the minister of foreign affairs of Greece, dated the 28th of April, informing me that the strictest neutrality will be observed by Greece during the war between the United States and Spain.

Very respectfully, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill.

Athens, April 16–28, 1898.

Mr. Minister: I had the honor to receive the telegram which you were pleased to send me from Constantinople the 14th-26th instant to inform me that the Congress of the United States of America, by an act approved the 13th-25th of April, had declared that a state of war exists with Spain since the 9th-21st of April, inclusively.

In the name of the Royal Government, I take note of this declaration, and I have the honor to inform you that the strictest neutrality will be observed by Greece during the war which has broken out between the United States of America and Spain.

Please accept, etc.,

Alexandre Zaiinis.