Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hill to Mr. Wu.

Department of State,
Washington, September 20, 1900.

No. 152.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant, in which you expressed to the Government and people of the United States the deep sympathy of the Government and people of China on account of the recent disaster at Galveston.

Your note has been communicated to the President, who charges me to express his sincere appreciation of your Government’s sympathetic message. In doing so, I beg to thank you also for your own expression of sympathy.

Accept, etc.

David J. Hill,
Acting Secretary.