File No. 838.00/592.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Mr. Knox informs Mr. Furniss that the department approves his July 20, noon. Instructs him to persist in the attitude therein indicated and to inform the Government of Haiti that the United States will hold Haiti strictly responsible for any damage that its citizens may sustain as a result of violations of these stipulations.