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  4. Document 923

Mr. Day to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington , August 9, 1898 .
No. 1125.]

Excellency: Referring to previous correspondence relative to the property of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Habana, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 5th instant, in which you say that you are in receipt of a telegram from Her Majesty’s acting consul-general in Habana, stating that an attempt has been made by a man named Sanchez to extort money from the Joerg Mission in connection with the will of the late Dr. Belot.

A copy of your above-mentioned note has been sent to the chairman of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for the information of those concerned.

I have, etc.,

William R. Day.