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  4. Document 704

Mr. Buck to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]
Legation of the United States,
Tokyo , March 17, 1902 .

(Mr. Buck reports that a proposal to arbitrate has been made by the Japanese Government to the representatives of the powers protesting; that the United States, not having protested, is not included, and inquires whether it would be proper to ask that the United States Government be made a party to the arbitration.)