Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 2126/322.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Furniss.

[Telegram.—Pharaphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 28, 1908.

Mr. Bacon, answering the concluding inquiry in telegram of November 26, advises Mr. Furniss that the German vessel is presumably an Atlas steamer, now under the German flag, but that the circumstance that part of her cargo may be American property does not give the United States Government the right to intervene on behalf of the vessel, as her flag covers the cargo. Says that the German legation is competent to deal with the case.