Mr. Choate to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

(Mr. Choate reports that Lord Lansdowne has informed him that an agreement has been arrived at with Russia that any Japanese vessels found poaching shall be reported to Japan and that British and American poachers shall be mutually reported to each other by the patrol boats, but that the Russian suggestion that British offenders should be reported to Russia has not been accepted.)