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

Mr. Thomas to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Stockholm, April 26, 1898.

No. 19.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have this evening received a note from the minister for foreign affairs in which he states that—

His Majesty the King, my august sovereign, in view of the hostilities between the United States and Spain, has decided to observe for the United Kingdoms a strict neutrality.

I immediately telegraphed you the above information.

I append a copy of my telegram and inclose a copy of the note of Count Douglas.

I have, etc.,

W. W. Thomas, Jr.

(Inclosures not printed.)