File No. 2151/84.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Netherlands Minister.
Washington, November 15, 1907.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 12th instant, by which you advise the department that Her Majesty’s minister for foreign affairs, in replying to an identic note of the 19th ultimo from the minister of Spain and the chargé d’affaires of France at The Hague, in relation to the settlement of indemnities for damages caused by the occurrences at Casablanca, stated that in the opinion of the Queen’s Government the international commission should also take up the pecuniary claims arising from murders committed during or after the military operations in and near Casablanca.
Referring to your statement that you are instructed to communicate to the department this view of Her Majesty’s Government, and to point out the advantage that would result from thus extending the commission’s jurisdiction, I have the honor to say that the Government of the United States would not oppose such a proposition if it were found acceptable to the other interested powers.
Accept, etc.,