Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Jones to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United States,
Buenos Ayres, April 5, 1898.

No. 476.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 318 of February 24 last and to transmit herewith copy of my note to the minister of foreign relations conveying to his excellency the grateful appreciation of the Government of the United States for the tender of sympathy on behalf of the Government of the Argentine Republic in the recent disaster to the U. S. S. Maine.

I have, etc.,

François S. Jones,
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.

[Inclosure in No. 476.]

Mr. Jones to Dr. Alcorta.

Legation of the United States,
Buenos Ayres, April 5, 1898.

Mr. Minister: I have the honor to inform your excellency that my Government has received from the chargé d’affaires ad interim of the Argentine Republic at Washington a note conveying the expression of condolence of your excellency’s Government in view of the recent disaster of the U. S. S. Maine.

In response thereto I am charged to assure your excellency of my Government’s grateful appreciation for the tender of these sentiments of sympathy.

In acquitting myself of this duty, etc.,

François S. Jones,
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.