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. Choate.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 8, 1900.

(Mr. Hay states that shippers have been advised in accordance with Mr. Choate’s cablegram of the 7th instant.

Directs that British foreign office be advised that Norton & Son suggest the danger of long continued confinement below hatches of a shipment of oil on the Mashona, resulting in spontaneous combustion and destruction of ship and cargo.)