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

Mr. Choate to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
London, August 3, 1904.

(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.)