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

Mr. Arriaga to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of Guatemala at Washington,
Washington, D. C., February 17, 1898.

Mr. Secretary: The news of the disaster to the war vessel Maine in the bay of Habana, and of the destruction of life among the seamen belonging to the American Navy, has caused profound grief to my Government, and, in its name, I have the honor so to inform your excellency, and to beg you to be pleased to convey to His Excellency President McKinley this expression of sympathy on account of this deplorable occurrence.

I take pleasure in renewing, etc.,

Antonio Lazo Arriaga.