Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay.
Berlin, July 26, 1900.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that on the receipt, on the 20th instant, of your instruction No. 1067, of July 6, 1900, the embassy communicated to the Imperial foreign office the text of the telegram addresed by the President to His Majesty the German Emperor relative to the murder of Baron von Ketteler, the German minister at Pekin, quoting in its note the last paragraph of the instruction above mentioned. To-day a note has been received in reply, in which the foreign office expresses its most sincere thanks for the information and adds that the President’s telegram had been answered by the Emperor himself.
I have the honor to be, etc.,