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

Mr. Angell to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, April 25, 1898.

No. 107.]

Sir: On Saturday, the 23d instant, on the receipt of the telegram from you announcing the blockade of certain portions of the coast of Cuba, agreeably to your instructions I waited on the minister of foreign affairs, and communicated the information to him, orally and in writing.

He made inquiries about the relative positions of Key West and Habana, and about the destruction of the Maine.

He assured me that the Ottoman Government would maintain a strict neutrality between Spain and the United States in the case of hostilities.

I have, etc.,

James B. Angell.