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

Mr. Choate to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram in cipher.—Paraphrase.]

London, January 11, 1900.

[Mr. Choate states that the substance of the Department’s telegram of January 2 was on the 4th communicated to the British minister for foreign affairs, with added details as to the shipments of Flint, Eddy & Co. and the Geldarts. At the same time he asked restitution of all merchandise shipped by American citizens detained or seized on the Mashona and the Maria, there appearing nothing in any aspect of the case, in the circumstances communicated to the United States Government, to justify the seizure of the goods.]