Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg, June 30, 1896.
(Received July 11.)
No. 333.][Inclosure in No.
333.—Translation.]
Mr. Chichkine
to Mr. Breckinridge.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Asiatic
Department,
June 15/27, 1896.
Mr. Envoy: Following the notes which I have
had the honor to address you, dated March 20 and April 9, 1896, Nos.
1238 and 1522, on
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the
subject of the affair of the seventeen poachers arrested on Robben
Island for being engaged in the illicit hunting of fur seals, and in
reply to your last note of April 6/18, I hasten to make known to you
the names of those individuals which have been communicated by the
competent authorities. They are given as Steven Brenan, Roger
Sheehy, Charles Riley, John Mahoney, Wenrich Ross, Edward Laskine,
Arthur Wine, Diton Carty, Charles Calabell, Charles Nilsson, Hans
Carlsen, Andre Anderson, Franz Hill, Edward Howe, John Wilson,
Charles Evans, and Alexander Lilish.
The result of the information furnished by the ministry of the marine
is that by a sentence of the tribunal of the arrondissement of
Vladivostok, dated January 12 of that year, all these individuals,
having been found guilty of being engaged in the illicit hunting of
seals on land, have been sentenced each to five months’
imprisonment, which sentence, as I had the honor to inform you in my
note of March 20, 1896, above mentioned, has not been put in
execution, the public prosecutor having interposed an appeal
regarding it.
In bringing the preceding to your knowledge I avail myself, etc.,
