Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Hay to Mr. Townsend.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 17, 1902.

The President directs you to convey, through the appropriate channel, his sympathy with His Majesty by reason of the attempt upon his life, and sincere congratulations in his own name and in the name of the people of the United States that the King has been providentially saved from harm and the Belgian people from affliction.

Hay.