No. 217.
Baron Gerolt to Mr. Fish.
Sir: In answer to the inquiry made in your note of yesterday, “whether I could give you information in relation to the plan referred to in Count Bismarck’s note of January 29th last as having been proposed in 1868 by the representative of Great Britain in China for the adoption of combined measures on the part of the maritime powers for the extermination of piracy in Chinese waters,” I have the honor to state that I have got no information of the particulars of the proposed plan, nor could I learn anything from the British legation on the subject.