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, August 1, 1904.

(Mr. Hay informs Mr. Choate of the acceptance by Russia of the proposal that the Russian territorial waters of the prohibited zone, as laid down by the Russo-American arrangement of 1894, be patrolled by American vessels for the purpose of protecting seals in those waters from marauders.)