Mr. Hay to Mr. Tower.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

(Mr. Hay acknowledges Mr. Tower’s telegram of the 9th instant and states that, in view of the cordial and satisfactory response of the German Government, the Department will at once communicate the views of the United States to all the neutral signatories of the protocol of Peking, and instruct our representatives at St. Petersburg, Tokyo, and Peking in the same sense.)