Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 69.

Mr. E. B. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

No. 272.]

Legation of the United States, Paris, August 31, 1870. (Received September 15.)

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 261, of August 17, I have the honor to inclose you an extract from the official journals, fixing the date of the commencement of the blockade of the North German coast at the 19th instead of the 15th of August.

E B. WASHBURNE.

[Translation.]

(Extract from the Journal Officiel of August 30, 1870.)

OFFICIAL PART.

The notification inserted in the Journal Officiel of the 25th of August relative to the blockade of the coast of the confederation of North Germany in the Baltic, has erroneously fixed the 15th of August as the commencement of the blockade. It is only from the 19th of August that the blockade has been really effectual.