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

Baron Riedl to Mr. Hay.

[Translation.]

Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Legation,
Washington, February 11, 1899.

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th instant, No. 263, which was delivered to me on the 9th, relative to the demand for indemnity made by the Austro-Hungarian Government on account of the killing of several of its subjects by Sheriff Martin and his posse near Lattimer, Pa., and I beg to add that I have forwarded the note to my Government, and must now await its further decision.

I avail myself, etc.,

Riedl.