Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Meyer.

Department of State,
Washington, May 26, 1905.

No. 33.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 25th instant, stating that you await instructions concerning the Russian action on cotton in the Calchas case, and adding that the written decision will probably be printed in about two weeks.

In reply, I have to say that the Department desires you to procure and forward to it the full text of the decision of the council of the admiralty in the Calchas case, in order that it may consider the same in the light of a full and authentic copy of the decision.

I am, etc.,

F. B. Loomis