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

No. 45.

[Telegram.—Received July 19, 1870.]

Mr. E. B. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

Paris, July 18, 1870.

Fish, Washington:

Prussian chargé has notice declaration war. Leaves to-morrow. Places archives under our protection. Saxony asks same.

WASHBURNE.