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. Hunter.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington , October 6, 1900 .

(Mr. Hay acknowledges Mr. Hunter’s dispatch No. 410, and states that a written request, forwarded in original to Mr. Hunter, has been addressed to the Department by the entire Pears family (mother and seven children), asking that demand for indemnity be pushed; directs renewal of demand, and insistence upon prompt payment of $10,000.)