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

Mr. Hay to Mr. Choate.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 18, 1904.

(Mr. Hay instructs Mr. Choate to ascertain whether the British Government would agree to the proposition that if an Americen vessel be detailed to patrol the high seas in the neighborhood of the Commander Islands, and also the territorial waters about those islands, if the Russian Government agree thereto, to arrest any American poachers found there, the commander of the British patrol ship should report to the American commander any seal poaching by American vessels which might come under his notice, and vice versa.)