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

Mr. Hay to Mr. Cambon.

Department of State,
Washington, June 21, 1900.

No. 326.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your courteous note of the 19th instant, expressing the thanks of your Government for the courtesy shown by Rear-Admiral Schley, U. S. N., to the distressed French steamship Bretagne.

A translation of your note is to-day sent to my colleague, the Secretary of the Navy, who will, I am sure, be greatly pleased at your Government’s appreciation of Admiral Schley’s act.

Accept, excellency, etc.

John Hay.