Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. White to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
London, July 14, 1904

(Mr. White states that the British foreign office desires to know what measures, if any, the United States Government proposes to take to protect seals in Russian waters against American raiders as provided for in the act of Congress of 1897, which prohibits American citizens and persons belonging to American vessels from killing or capturing seals in the North Pacific Ocean, including Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk.)