The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Meyer.
Washington, October 1, 1905.
(Mr. Loomis transmits the reply of the Japanese Government in regard to the exchange of the prisoners under sentence for insubordination which states that arrangements had already been made to remit the imprisonment of all Russian prisoners of war, irrespective of the penalty to which they had been condemned, on the day when the treaty of peace shall come into force, provided that the Russian Government will likewise remit imprisonment of all Japanese prisoners of war held on that date. The Japanese Government requests the views of the Russian Government on this point and further expresses the desire for an early definite reply to the proposition regarding the place where delivery of prisoners shall take place.)