No. 201.
Mr. Sargent to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Berlin, May 21, 1883. (Received June 5.)
Sir: Wishing to keep you informed of all facts bearing upon the controversy in regard to the exclusion of American pork products, whether the same be of greater or less importance, I have the honor to state that * * * the North German Gazette published on yesterday, but without comments, another of my dispatches on the above-named subject, crediting it to the “Reports of Consuls of the United States.” It is to be found on page 39 of the January number of that publication.
So far as I have observed, no comment has so far appeared in any German newspaper upon the strenuous articles in the American press which have followed the North German Gazette’s attack on the American minister.
I have, &c.,