Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, Whaling and Sealing Claims Against Russia, On Account of Arrest and Seizure of the American Vessels “Cape Horn Pigeon,” “James Hamilton Lewis,” “C. H. White,” and “Kate and Anna,” Appendix I

EXHIBIT D.

[St. Petersburg, October 7/19, 1891]

Note of the Minister of the United States of North America at St. Petersburg to the Gerant of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dated October 7 (19), 1891.

My Government advises me by telegraph that it is reported that 17 seamen of the confiscated sealing schooner James Hamilton Lewis of San Francisco are destitute and starving at Vladivostok, and that the Russian authorities will not permit their departure. My Government instructs me to request prompt investigation and relief.

In obedience to this instruction, I have the honor, renewing my personal representation of to-day, to bring this report to the attention of your excellency, and to ask that an immediate inquiry may be made, and, if warrant is found for the statement, that the necessary measures of relief may be promptly taken.

I avail myself, etc.,

Smith.