File No. 1806/670.

The Secretary of State to Minister Bryan.

No. 25.]

Sir: The department has received your dispatch No. 23 of the 1st instant, reporting the situation in the Kongo, and in reply informs you that the attitude of this Government is one of inaction, but benevolent expectancy toward the contemplated reforms.

I am, etc.,

(For
Mr. Knox
.)
Huntington Wilson.