The Acting Secretary of State to the Russian Ambassador.
Washington, July 20, 1905.
Excellency: In view of a letter recently received from the Secretray of the Navy, the Department asked the Japanese minister at this capital whether his government would object to an indefinite leave of absence being granted to Lieutenant Speshnoff, of the interned Russian transport Lena, in order that he might be treated at the hospital at St. Petersburg.
The Department has been assured by the Japanese minister, in a personal note, that his government would not object to the permission being granted, and the Secretary of the Navy has been so advised.
Accept, etc.,