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

Mr. Hitchcock to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
St. Petersburg, October 6, 1898.

No. 161.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that His Excellency Count Lamsdorff, at his usual weekly reception at the foreign office yesterday afternoon, informed me that the situation with respect to the proposed international conference remained as advised in my No. 157, of September 29; that is to say, the Imperial Government is still awaiting an official reply from the British Government, and further, that with respect to the invitation of the Italian Government, proposing an international conference to consider the control of anarchists, he has not yet received the instructions of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor.

I have, etc.,

Ethan A. Hitchcock.