Ambassador Reid to the Secretary of State.

No. 640.]

Sir: With reference to my dispatch No. 626, of the 11th instant, I have the honor to inclose1 herewith, for your confidential information, a copy of a memorandum handed by Sir Edward Grey to the Belgian minister in London on the subject of the affairs of the Independent State of the Kongo, which I have received from the foreign office to-day.

I have, etc.,

Whitelaw Reid.
  1. See “Africa, No. 4,” printed in S. Doc. No. 147, 61st Cong., 1st sess.