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, February 8, 1900.

[Mr. Choate reports that a telegram received by Mr. Chamberlain from Sir Alfred Milner states that up to January 24 no claim had been received for the release of any flour on the Mashona on the ground that it was the property of American citizens, and that no representations had so far been made to him on behalf of American owners of goods on any of the other vessels which Her Majesty’s ships had seized.]