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

Mr. Loomis to Mr. McCormick.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 24, 1904.

(Mr. Loomis informs Mr. McCormick that the Japanese Government desires to send a neutral ship to Korsakov, Saghalien Island, for the Japanese consular staff and 600 refugees detained there by ice and reported in need of food. Instructs him to ask for Russia’s consent and to notify the Japanese consulate at Korsakov to prepare for embarkation, and to advise the Japanese Government, through the American commerical agent at Vladivostok, when the relief vessel should be dispatched.)