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

Mr. Eddy to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg , October 28, 1904 .

(Mr. Eddy reports that the Russian Government formally agrees to the submission of the circumstances of the North Sea incident to a special tribunal as provided by articles 9 and 14 of The Hague convention; that the preliminary inquiry is to be conducted at Vigo, where the fleet is to remain at present.)