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

Mr. Paz to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of Bolivia in the United States of North America,
29 Avenue Friedland, Paris, February 18, 1898.

Mr. Secretary: The misfortune that the United States of America has just experienced in the loss of the Maine, one of its important war vessels, as well as in the loss of many brave mariners who went down with her, victims to military duty, has caused in the mind of my Government a very sad impression.

In its name, as well as in my own, I have the honor to convey to your excellency a word of profound sympathy in so sad an occurrence.

Be pleased, your excellency, to accept it as an expression of the affection which Bolivia professes for the great republic of North America.

I renew, etc.,

L. Paz.