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. Porter.

Department of State,
Washington , September 19, 1900 .

No. 835.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 725, of the 28th ultimo, relative to the loss of the French torpedo-boat destroyer Framée, and to inform you in reply that the Department approves your course in expressing the sympathy of your embassy to the French Government.

I am, etc.,

David J. Hill,
Acting Secretary.