Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Sir Mortimer Durand to Mr. Hay.

British Embassy,
Washington, December 6, 1904.

No. 205.]

Sir: With reference to your letter of the 1st instant, in which you were so good as to inform me that the President had designated Rear-Admiral Charles Henry Davis, of the United States Navy, to serve on the court appointed to inquire into the North Sea incident, I have the honor to state that I have received instructions from His Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs to convey to the President and to the Government of the United States the thanks of His Majesty’s Government for the prompt manner in which their request has been complied with. I am to add that His Majesty’s Government regard with much satisfaction the appointment of so distinguished an officer as Rear-Admiral Davis to be the United States member of the commission.

I have, etc.,

H. M. Durand.