Office of the Historian

Mr. Hill to Mr. Tower.

[Confidential.]
Department of State,
Washington, October 11, 1899.
No. 1580.]

Sir: In response to your confidential note of the 8th instant, and in view of the further inquiry orally made to me by you this morning, I have the honor to inform you that in the event of the necessary withdrawal from Pretoria of the British agent, the Government of the United States will have pleasure in allowing its consul at Pretoria to afford to British interests in that quarter the friendly and neutral protective offices usual in such contingency.

I have, etc.,

David J. Hill,
Acting Secretary.