Mr. Hay to Mr. Storer.
Washington, December 14, 1904
Sir: Referring to the Department’s No. 116 of October 29 last, I inclose a copy of a letter from Mr. John Horniak, post-office box 48, Freeland, Pa., setting forth the circumstances under which his wife, Mrs. Maria Horniak, has made complaint in regard to her treatment by a Hungarian official at Fiume and the damages sustained in being compelled to purchase a ticket to the United States by the Cunard Line, notwithstanding the fact that she held a prepaid ticket by the North German Lloyd.a
Supplementary to the instructions already received by the embassy in connection with this and similar cases of complaint, you will transmit a statement of the facts set forth in Mrs. Horniak’s case to the foreign office for the attention of the Hungarian Government.
Where American citizens are treated by the authorities as were Mrs. Horniak and others whose cases have been notified to the embassy by either the Department or the Red Star Line, at least restitution of the property taken from them and reimbursement of actual additional expenses should be made to them.
I am, etc.,
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