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. McCormick.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 4, 1904.

(Mr. Hay informs Mr. McCormick that Messrs. Washburn and Little, American newspaper correspondents, have been arrested by Russian authorities and their chartered British boat has been seized at the entrance to the harbor of Niuchwang, and instructs him to ask for their release and protection.)