Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Porter to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Embassy of the United States,
Paris, April 16, 1903.

(Mr. Porter reports that war vessels of four nations went to Algiers and saluted the President of France on his arrival there on April 15; that the President, in returning from an important official visit to Tunis, will arrive at Marseille on April 30. Ambassador suggests that United States war ships should go to Marseille and salute the President on his arrival.)