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

Mr. Sherman to Señor del Viso.

Department of State,
Washington, February 24, 1898.

No. 17.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 19th instant, stating that you have been instructed by your Government to express its condolence in view of the disaster which occurred to the U. S. S. Maine.

In reply I have to say that the Government of the United States gratefully appreciates the message of sympathy thus conveyed from the Government of the Argentine Republic.

Accept, etc.,

John Sherman.

Note.—Similar acknowledgments were made to the diplomatic representatives of the following countries: Belgium, Bolivia, Greater Republic of Central America, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Spain, and Turkey.