Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 144.

Mr. Fish to Mr. Bancroft

No. 242.]

Department of State, Washington, September 22, 1870.

Sir: I inclose, for your information, a translation of a communication of the 16th instant, from M. Berthemy, in refutation of the accusations made by the government of North Germany that the French army had disregarded the rules of international law in the present war.

HAMILTON FISH.

[For this inclosure see Mr. Berthemy’s note to Mr. Fish, dated September 16, ante, “France.”]