Mr. Choate to Mr. Hay.
London, July 11, 1901.
Sir: With reference to your instruction No. 647, of the 4th ultimo, and to my dispatch No. 610, of the 5th instant, I assume that you will have inferred from Lord Lansdowne’s note of the 28th ultimo, stating that His Majesty’s Government is unable to make any exception in respect to prisoners of war unless they are suffering from serious or dangerous illness, and that the secretary of state for war does not see his way to ordering the release of Messrs. Connelly and Smith, that it would be neither advisable nor of any use to ask for the release on parole of Mr. William Frederick Versluis.
I have, etc.,