Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay.

No. 1434.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this morning of your telegram1 containing the American answer to certain French proposals with regard to the peace negotiations with China, and to inform you that I at once communicated the same to Baron von Richthofen, at the foreign office. * * *

I have the honor to be, etc.,

John B. Jackson.
  1. Printed p. 307.