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

Mr. Clayton to Mr. Sherman.

. Legation of the United States,
Mexico, April 4, 1898.

No. 355.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy and translation of a note from Mr. Mariscal, in reply to my note of the 17th ultimo, reported in my dispatch No. 332, of the same date, regarding the late catastrophe to the U. S. battle ship Maine.

I have, etc.,

Powell Clayton.

[Inclosure 2 in No. 355.—Translation.]

Mr. Mariscal to Mr. Clayton.

Department of Foreign Affairs,
Mexico, March 28, 1898.

Mr. Minister: The President has learned with satisfaction, through your excellency’s note dated the 17th instant, of the appreciation with which the Government of the United States has received the expressions of sympathy of the Government and people of Mexico on account of the catastrophe to the U. S. S. Maine.

Accept, etc.,

Igno. Mariscal.

[Copy of a telegram from the minister of foreign affairs at The Hague, received February 17, 1898, by the minister of the Netherlands, at Washington.]

Be pleased to convey the expression of the sincere sympathy of Admiral Roell and of the royal marine of the Netherlands on the occasion of the disaster which has befallen the valiant Navy of the United States. Government of the Netherlands most heartily shares these sentiments.

Beaufort.