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

The Secretary of State to Ambassador McCormick.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 21, 1905.

(Mr. Hay informs Mr. McCormick that press dispatches report that the three Russian officers of the Lena who broke their parole and left San Francisco deny that they had given their parole not to leave that city. The commandant of the navy-yard reports that each of them gave their personal parole in the following words: “I promise on my honor not to leave San Francisco without the permission of the President of the United States or until an agreement has been made to that effect between the two governments.”)