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

Ambassador Meyer to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg, June 28, 1905.

Under date of 28th consul Odessa telegraphs that Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkin and one torpedo boat arrived here last evening; all of the officers were murdered at sea and their bodies thrown overboard. Situation precarious. Men threaten to bombard the town if interfered with. Black Sea fleet expected here to-day.

Meyer.