Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part II

No. 20.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Phelps.

Department of State,
Washington, August 9, 1888.

No. 948.]

Sir: I inclose herewith, for your information, a copy of a recent dispatch^* from Mr. Hubbard, our minister at Tokio, relative to the recent action of the Japanese Government in requesting United States consuls in Japan to refrain from shipping Japanese subjects on otter-hunting vessels; and giving an account of the attack at Copper Island on the British schooner Nemo.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.

1. See infra, No. 30.