Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 1229/1.

Mr. Higgins (for the British Ambassador) to the Secretary of State.

British Embassy,
Lenox, Mass., October 10, 1906.

No. 195.]

Sir: I had the honor to communicate to His Majesty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs the fact that the United States Government were willing to forego provisionally their extraterritorial rights in Zanzibar, which you notified to me in your note No. 489 of July 27.

I am now instructed by Sir Edward Grey to express to you the thanks of His Majesty’s Government for the courteous manner in which their desires on the subject have been met.

I have, etc.,

Cecil Higgins,

(For the Ambassador.)