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

Mr. Day to Mr. Hay

Department of State,
Washington, July 23, 1898.

No. 762.]

Sir: I have received and communicated to the Secretary of the Navy your telegram of the 21st instant, which deciphered reads as follows:

British Government has made inquiry and is convinced there is no truth in report of Spanish privateer at Vancouver.

Respectfully, yours,

J. B. Moore,
Acting Secretary.